
In early 18th-century Lisbon Baltasar a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle falls in love with Blimunda a young girl with visionary powers From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake the two are bound body & soul by love of an unassailable strength A third party shares their supper that evening Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine As the Crown & the Church clash they purse his impossible not to mention heretical dream of flight