Poisons of God, remedies of the Devil

The young Portuguese doctor Sidónio Rosa, deeply in love with the Mozambican mulatto Deolinda, whom he met in Lisbon at a medical conference, went to Mozambique as a volunteer in search of his beloved. In Vila Cacimba, where he meets her parents, he patiently waits for her to return from the internship she is attending somewhere. But will she ever return? In the meantime, through the mist that envelops it, the secrets and mysteries, the untold stories of Vila Cacimba are revealed to him—the Sozinhos family, Munda and Bartolomeu, the old sailor, the administrator, His Excellency and his Wife, the mysterious messenger in the grey dress scattering the flowers of oblivion