This is a true story very well filmed in all aspects. Salgueiro Maia was the heroic army captain that commanded the military action during the revotion that overthrew the fascist regime in Portugal in April 1974, installing democracy. The movie shows it with gret realism and accuracy since the action itself to the further depreciative treatment he suffered from the public authorities of the new democratic regime. This is well shown by the several scenes of the movie.