Vasco da Gama continues the narrative of the history of Portugal by recounting the story of the House of Aviz from the 1383-85 Crisis until the moment during the reign of Dom Manuel I when the armada of Vasco da Gama sails to India.
Vasco da Gama, seeing the near destruction of his caravels, prays to his own God, but it is Venus who helps the Portuguese by sending the Nymphs to seduce the winds and calm them down.