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These three stories are set in the slums of Angola's capital, Luanda, during the 1940s and 1950s. Originally published in Portuguese, this book won the Writers' Society's Grand Prize for Fiction in 1965.

Portrays the cruelty of white "justice" and the courage of African men and women in preindependent Angola. It is the story of a tractor driver with nationalist sympathies who is arrested, tortured and murdered by the colonial police.

O primeiro livro de José Luandino Vieira traz dez contos onde se conjugam, em alto grau, um sentir poético eivado de ternura e o vigor realista que caracteriza um retrato social cheio de intenções críticas.