El tamaño del mundo

Isolated in his Lisbon home, an old man awaits death while gazing across the Tagus River. The furniture in his room creaks, objects seem enormous, as he ponders the magnitude of his solitude and the size of the world—his own and that of those who have passed through his life. His unrecognized daughter, the one he abandoned, returns to his mind. So does her mother, from a lower social standing than his own, a successful businessman. Now he tries to recover everything that has vanished: his family, his childhood, his daughter's, and even the parks and gardens that once filled his Lisbon. In this return to the past, the old man finds moments that remain untouched, like a pristine era. The passage of years, the mistakes he made, or the melancholy of memories cannot diminish the happiness of yesteryear.