Pawnbroker's wife
Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.
Retrato social típica de un país aislado y pobre, víctima de una ideología totalitaria. "Un universo parada y opresiva rural, roto por ausencias, desacuerdos o silencios, centrado en una pareja - Maria dos Prazeres, Álvaro Silvestre. Estado civil compromiso de relaciones, que se hizo añicos por el conflicto latente de pasiones, debilidades y deseos reprimidos ". Cit:. José de Matos-Cruz en Cais do mira, ed. Portuguesa Cinemateca, 1,999.
