Private Property is built of a thick matter from the mixture of cement, desire, past dreams, lies, lime, perverse games, pain, a hidden camera, water, passing time, blood and imminent danger.

This work deals with seduction, fights, power games, surrender and rejection, fear, loneliness and eternal love.

It relates to our geographical position, with the discovery of the trajectory of each of the characters.

Recording and editing of the homonym ballet, choreographed by Olga Roriz, for the Companhia Olga Roriz.

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her first child.

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of Portugal, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the reality of the film we see and that of PREC, the moment of the studied documentary and the contemporary world, with the young Michel in between.