The world, life and work of Jaime Fernandes, a peasant born in Barcos (Beira Baixa, Portugal), who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 38 and interned in a sanatorium in Lisbon, Hospital Miguel Bombarda, where he died at the age of 69. When he was 65-years-old he started to paint and during the short period of life-time until his death he made a brilliant pictorial work, influenced by the social environment and the sanatorium daily-lifeaaa For the Portuguese-speaking members a lot of information about the film and director can be found here: http://antonioreis.blogspot.com/ For the French-speaking members: Critic de Jean Louis Schefer, Cinmathque-http://antonioreis.blogspot.com/2007/07/160-jaime-crtica-de-jean-louis-schefer.html