Xime

The rice peasant Iala is confronted with losing the authority over his two sons, Raúl and Bedan. Raúl, the elder son, through the help of Vittorio, the Italian priest from the little village school, had been sent to the seminary in the big city. No one knows that he has, in fact, joined the liberation movement against the Portuguese colonial regime. Bedan, the younger son, remaining behind in the village, is in opposition to the traditional authority of the village elders. Moreover, he is also secretly in love with his father's young bride to be!