Five Days, Five Nights (Cinco dias, cinco noites)

Portugal at the end of the Forties. André is 19 and forced to leave the country after escaping from prison. His friends find him a guide - Lambaça, a rowdy, hard-drinking smuggler - who knows the Tràs-os-Montes border area. Their mutual dislike is evident from the first. However, as they cross mountains and valleys hiding from the border guards and the political police over five days and five nights, with the help of Lambaça's acquaintances, the two men have time to get to know one another better. By the time they part company, the initial antipathy and mistrust felt when these two worlds met - worlds which would never normally meet at all - may be transformed into a friendship and admiration that neither will forget.