Director: Augusto Fraga
Off the coast of a small Portuguese island, a sunken boat full of cocaine hands a young fisherman the kind of chance that never comes twice -- and he has only days to decide whether to take it.
What is Turn Of The Tide about?
Eduardo has spent his whole life on an island where opportunity is scarce and ambition tends to go nowhere. When a drug shipment goes down just offshore, he sees a way out of that pattern, even though every part of the plan is reckless. Pulling it off means drawing family, neighbors, and old friends into a scheme none of them can walk back from, and the show tracks how quickly a small, close-knit community frays once money and secrecy enter it. Loyalty, debt, and old grudges resurface as Eduardo pushes further than he ever expected, and the island itself -- its geography, its gossip, its dead ends -- becomes as much an obstacle as the danger he's courting.
Cast & crew
Jose Condessa carries the series as Eduardo, a young man whose ordinary island life collides with an extraordinary risk. Kelly Bailey and Afonso Pimentel play figures pulled into his orbit as the scheme grows harder to contain, while Helena Caldeira, Rodrigo Tomas, and Andre Leitao fill out the island's tighter social circles. Pepe Rapazote and Albano Jeronimo add older, more skeptical voices who sense trouble building long before Eduardo admits it to himself.
Context & significance
Directed by Augusto Fraga, the 2023 Portuguese drama unfolds in hour-long episodes set almost entirely on and around a small island community, using that contained geography to tighten the pressure as the fallout from Eduardo's decision spreads. It plays less like a sprawling crime saga and more like a character study of what desperation does to people who rarely get a second chance, with the sea itself framing nearly every turn of the plot.
Where & how to watch
Turn of the Tide streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making the island's Portuguese dialogue easy to follow for Farsi-speaking audiences. This page can be read without an account; watching the series requires logging into K-Time, where the experience is designed around Persian-language navigation and search.