خلاصه داستان : ﭼﻨﺪ ﺣﻜﺎﻳﺖ اﺯ ﻗﺼﻪ ﻫﺎﻱ ﻫﺰاﺭ و ﻳﻚ ﺷﺐ ﻛﻪ ﺑﻪ ﺻﻮﺭﺕ ﺩاﺳﺘﺎﻥ ﻫﺎﻱ ﻣﺪﺭﻥ ﺩﺭ ﺁﻣﺪﻩ اﻧﺪ و…

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells king Shahryar her stories but these are not those in the book. These are stories based on whatever will be happening in Portugal during the production time of the film. As in the book, these stories will be tragic and comical, with rich and poor, powerless and powerful people, filled with surprising and extraordinary events. This film will be about the reality of a disgraced country, Portugal, under the effects of a global economic crisis.

خلاصه داستان : سومین و آخرین قسمت از سری داستان های اقتباس شده از "شب های عربی".

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

خلاصه داستان : یک شب، یک گروه از کارگران کارخانه خود را کشف می کنند که توسط دولت مشابهی اجرا می شود که آن را اجرا می کند. به زودی، کارگران خود را به منظور اشغال گیاه سازماندهی می کنند....

One night, a group of workers realises that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory. As they organize to survey the equipment and block the relocation of production, they are forced to stand at their posts with no work to do, as a form of retaliation, while negotiations over general lay-offs take place. The pressure leads to a breakdown of the workers along with the world around them.