Drawing on a lesson by José Bragança de Miranda on the Temptations of Saint Anthony and the death of Christ, Edmundo Cordeiro paints a portrait in motion: the film is drawn to untamed childhood, which scatters signs that are not always clear. The professor’s childhood in Chaves, by the banks of the River Tâmega, and that of the director, who responds to it. Amidst images that recede and images that haunt us, Carta a José Bragança de Miranda draws us into the innermost thoughts from which spring the wonder and the profound endurance of a life.