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Manuel, 19 years old, an intern at Rádio Clube Português, is being given a moralistic sermon by an old editor who is clearly attached to the regime. That night, demoralized, he listens to a phone call between his mother and his father, a soldier stationed in Santarém. Manuel waits for his mother and eight-year-old brother to fall asleep and starts practicing the perfect reporting take.