Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.

The underground lives and struggles of communist party militants during the Portuguese 'Estado Novo' regime.

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.

Ariel de Bigault's work has been connected to the routes of the Lusophone World. In Fantasmas do Império we are guided by the saotomean actor Angelo Torres through some works of the Portuguese cinema that explored its colonial past. Some directors as Fernando Matos Silva, João Botelho or Margarida Cardoso help to understand imperialism, colonialism, and propaganda seen through the "family album" which is the Portuguese cinematic collective imaginary.