Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Pedro Varela
How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?
A 21 year old American exchange student is about to finish up her year abroad in Brazil. While out for a night on the town with her boyfriend Gabriel, they are both kidnapped. Gabriel is repeatedly beaten while Mary is raped by her captors during a six-hour abduction nightmare. After she gets away Mary is forced to choose between seizing a chance at freedom and letting Gabriel be killed, or returning to her brutal attackers.
Esperança, is a charismatic octogenarian widow who lives and “resists” on a highly coveted second floor of a building, in Bairro do Castelo, in Lisbon. After an "unexpected accident" with the landlord, the now defendant also has to deal with her son and the ambitious daughter-in-law, who together conjure the widow to accept an alleged "financial agreement" and abandon her home of a lifetime. will reveal the true fiber of which it is made.