Character Relationship Map: Sorte Nula

Characters

• Chico (played by António Feio) — supporting

  Chico is Susana’s husband and the man at the center of Alberto’s conflicting account of a death. Furious over a keychain and convinced Alberto is having an affair with his wife, he threatens Alberto a...

• Alberto (played by Helder Mendes) — supporting

  Alberto is Chico’s acquaintance and the focus of the tangled events surrounding Chico’s apparent death. After Chico threatens and chases him, Alberto hides in a car trunk and later finds Chico lying d...

• Rita (played by Tânia Miller) — supporting

  Rita reveals that she had been involved with Chico for three years and believed they would marry, despite his being married. When Alberto tells her about Chico’s death, she agrees to help him only on...

• Diana (played by Carla Matadinho) — supporting

  Diana is with Alex when he decides to return after recognizing the dead man in a trunk as the husband of a woman with whom he has been involved. She offers to accompany Alex, but he insists on handlin...

• Alex (played by Pedro Teixeira) — supporting

  Alex is involved in the later storyline in which a real gun is handled recklessly and a man appears to be killed. Urged to leave, he decides to return after recognizing the dead man as the husband of...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Chico → Rita (Romantic Secret Lovers) — Rita's concealed relationship with Chico becomes important after his apparent death, and she asks Alberto to keep it secret.

  Rita says she had been involved with Chico for three years and believed they would marry, despite his marriage.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Alex → Diana (Alliance Would-Be Accomplice) — Diana is willing to accompany Alex into a risky situation, but he refuses her offer and handles it by himself.

  Diana offers to accompany Alex when he decides to return for the body in the trunk, but Alex insists on going alone.

• Alberto → Rita (Alliance Conditional Ally) — Rita offers Alberto assistance under explicit conditions as they try to manage the consequences of Chico's apparent death.

  After Alberto tells Rita about Chico's death, she agrees to help only if he keeps her relationship with Chico secret and tells her everything.

• Chico → Alberto (Conflict Threatened Adversary) — Chico's suspicions turn their encounter into a violent confrontation; Alberto later says Chico attacked him.

  Chico suspects Alberto of having an affair with his wife and planning to take her to Brazil. He threatens Alberto and chases him with a bat.

Story Analysis

Conflicting accounts of apparent deaths and concealed relationships turn separate encounters into escalating uncertainty.

Plot Progression

1. The Isolated Confrontation — Chico's anger over the keychain leads him to take Alberto to an isolated place. He threatens Alberto and chases him with a bat, and Alberto hides in a car trunk before finding Chico lying dead.
2. A Death Without Clarity — Police arrive after a call treated as a prank, while Alberto initially declines to press charges. He tells Chico's wife what happened, and Rita's disclosure of her long affair with Chico complicates t...
3. Contradictory Evidence — Rita offers help only on conditions, while uncertainty grows around Chico's body. The train wreck and Alberto's insistence that he saw Chico dead in the woods deepen the contradictions.
4. The Trunk and the Return — In a later storyline, Alex fires a real gun and appears to kill a man whose body is in a trunk. He recognizes the man, declines Diana's offer to accompany him, and decides to return, leaving the outco...