Lisbon, 1966. An investigation by the Criminal Police uncovers a network of child prostitution involving central figures of the political, economic and social elite of the regime. Drawing on forensic material, the film constructs a narrative in which police investigation, memory and historical reconstruction intertwine.
Adapted from the book The Trial of the Virgins (O Processo das Virgens) by Amadeu Lopes Sabino, the project proposes a cinema of active memory, articulating interrogations, recollections and archival fragments to move across two temporalities: the past of the Estado Novo dictatorship and the present.