Maria Lurdes’s daughter Ana Paula is going to marry João, a very wealthy man from a respectable family. The church ceremony goes aheda as planned and the bride says yes. During the reception everyone eats and drinks and has fun. However, theres is a secret waiting to be disclosed that will cast a shadow over the festive occasion. In a surprising manoeuvre it is the bridgeroom with the help of the bride’s younger brother, who reveals the secret…
In a typically quiet Portuguese way, where almost anyhing is allowed so long as it is not made public, “Watch the Birdie” is a truthful and actual portrait of a new Portuguese society which is fashionably known as “emerging”.