A tribute to poet Mário Dionísio is paid, when the camera lingers on a litter box in Lisbon, where his short poem "Cidade deserta" is printed, long enough for the viewer to read it.
Isadora Duncan is cited for comic relief, when an Arab person leaves his long white scarf around the neck, and flying out of a moving car, and someone cautions, him, "Be careful, Isadora Duncan died like that."