Évora, 1950. ALBERTO is a young teacher recently placed in the High School. Évora is an unwelcoming rural town, closed in itself where Alberto intends to reinvent himself as a lonesome writer. Alberto is seduced by SOFIA, one of the three daughters of a local doctor. During his classes, he tests his existential convictions by captivating a pupil, CAROLINO. When Sofia unexpectedly leaves him for Carolino, Alberto loses himself to a passion turmoil and to his own extreme convictions. APPARITION is a film adaptation of Vergílio Ferreira's masterpiece novel.