Mysteries of Lisbon

While attending a religious boarding school, Pedro da Silva, an orphan, discovers his mother's identity: the Countess Angela de Lima. With the help of Father Dinis, Pedro's real guardian and protector, the Countess is given a chance to get to know the child he was forced to abandon.

Young Pedro learns how his mother had met the Count of Santa Barbara, and was forced to become his wife. Meanwhile, Lisbon's high society is introduced to Alberto de Magalhaes, a successful nobleman who challenges any convention he deems fit-and his presence creates more mysteries.

Alberto de Magalhaes reveals his true identity to Father Dinis, who, in turn, also has his hidden identities, the result of a life full of secrets. In Santarem, Friar Baltazar da Encarnação provides yet another revelation, one that tells of his youth spent in Venice.

At the convent where the Countess of Santa Barbara has secluded herself, she meets an old acquaintance, D. Antónia, soul sister of Father Dinis, who tells the story of her mother, Anacleta the Healer, a woman who met only with tragedy after betraying her husband, Don Teotónio.

Alberto de Magalhães finally has his French history catch up to him in Lisbon, in the form of Elise de Monfort, a beautiful French woman with her heart set on vengeance. Meanwhile, Alberto has married, by coincidence, the Count of Santa Barbara's former lover, Eugenia.

Pedro da Silva, now a grown man, meets and falls in love with Elise de Monfort. And after entangling himself in a duel to the death with Alberto de Magalhaes, he learns of the true depths of her vengeance.