"French television came up with the idea of Se Deus Quiser (but they didn't carry it through), which consisted in inviting six European directors to describe their homeland in a film. When my friend Jacques Dercourt contacted me - he had seen Nós Por Cá Todos Bem at Cannes - I told him I like the idea a lot and I proposed a to Várzea and to my mother, that is, a confrontation between images and sound, memory and sentiment" (Fernando Lopes).
