So a Portuguese poet once said and this movie proves it's true. An eleven year old kid hits another same age kid with a stick on the face breaking him two teeth and leaving him with a swollen lip. Their parents (two married couples) meet together in the victim's home to discuss the situation and reach an agreement upon the measures and compensations to be taken. The conversation begins in a very civilized, peaceful and polite tone but a bickering slowly begins to take place which embitters the talk till it reaches a high level of violent altercation that curiously puts not only the two couples against one another but also sometimes husband against wife within each couple. This sequence of scenes and dialogues is well filmed and acted but the situation develops itself in a mood a bit artificial and after all the theme of the story is not so important. Nevertheless the most important of its features is that, comparing the children's behaviour with their parents'one we see that the latter had only a superficial politeness which once broken was not better than the former's. Anyway the screen-play though interesting, is not particularly deep in psychological and dramatic terms though the conversation scenes are sometimes very vivid.
