At the heart of an upper-middle class family resides a bizarre love triangle. Two men, one woman. A couple, and a stranger to the family. The stranger is hitchhiking by the road and a man invites him into his car. A hand on a thigh speaks volumes. She is waiting for them at home, a sumptuous villa. An essay on the various possibilities and rituals of recent freedom, Os Demónios da Liberdade is also a manifest of sexual freedom. But the demons are still around. The lover who breathes fresh air into this couple’s life is himself chased by the ghosts of morality and by a past still too present, duly identified by a swastika on his forehead. A very effective musical score, together with especially careful editing and a great cinematographic sensitivity in the set-up, shooting and time management, make this short film a singular object for its time. And, thirty years after its making, we can but think about some aspects and behaviours of our society today, where strong signs of lack of freedom still seem to prevail. JJoão Ferreira