João Pedro Dantas
An adaptation of the short story with the same name by Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge.
The story of two brothers with a sick mother and a reality that leads the audience through paths of secrets and lies, puts the viewer in the role of participatory observer, each drawing its own conclusions.
In a village of the portuguese interior, David, a landfill worker in his thirties, has a hard decision to make: move in with his girlfriend to the capital, fighting for their increasingly weakened relation, or go on living with his mother, that couldn't handle the household expenses by herself.
Different attitudes towards love, loss, faith and searching for the sense of life, revealed by familiarity of four characters.