A TALKING PICTURE

Rosa Maria, a young history professor, sets out with her daughter Maria Joana on a cruise through the Mediterranean to Bombay, India. This pleasure cruise allows Rosa Maria to show her daughter, and actually see herself for the first time, places which she talks about in her courses but has never visited. Traveling to Ceuta, Marseilles, the ruins of Pompei, Athens, the pyramids in Egypt, and Istanbul, their journey covers thousands of years of history, through the Mediterranean civilization that marked and still marks Western culture. On the cruise, Rosa Maria meets the ship’s American captain and three impressive women, well-known figures of different nationalities: a renowned French businesswoman, an Italian former model, and a Greek actress. But on the way to the Persian Gulf, a strange threat upsets the cruise, menacing the ship and the life of its passengers...