On znal o Frantsii vse, a o Portugalii nichego; on ponimal, chto proishodit v dalekoy Moskve, no ne v rodnom Lissabone. On ne osoznaval, chto sam uzhe ne upravlyaet sobstvennoy stranoy, - ego smestili pochti dva goda nazad, no on etogo tak i ne ponyal. Antoniu Salazar bolee 40 let upravlyal ogromnoy kolonialnoy imperiey, no pal zhertvoy svoego zhe lyubimogo detischa - tsenzury. Italyanskiy zhurnalist Marko Ferrari razbiraetsya v istorii samoy dlitelnoy diktatury Evropy - s ee zarozhdeniya v 1930-e, vo vremena Gitlera, Franko i Mussolini, i do upadka v 1970-e, epohu «Bitlz» i «Rolling Stounz». On rasskazyvaet o protivorechivoy figure Antoniu Salazara, byvshego seminarista i provintsialnogo uchitelya, kotoryy sumel uderzhat Portugaliyu v storone ot mirovoy voyny, no v to zhe vremya sozdal izoschrennuyu repressivnuyu mashinu i krovyu pytalsya sohranit imperiyu ot raspada. Eto tragichnaya i neveroyatnaya istoriya o tom, kak umirayut diktatory i diktatury.
