"Amor de Salvação" by Camilo Castelo Branco is a novel published in 1864. Afonso and Teodora are promised to each other by their mothers, but when Afonso leaves to study abroad, the impatient Teodora marries her crude cousin to escape convent life. Years of longing, betrayal, and self-destruction follow as Afonso pursues a consuming passion that leads him to abandon everything. Can redemption come from an unexpected source, or will desire destroy him completely?