The summer festivities of a Portuguese village are suffused with sensuality and violence in this enigmatic portrait of a tightly knit family.
Uma noite, os trabalhadores de uma fábrica de elevadores em Portugal veem as máquinas serem colocadas em furgões e levadas. Sem conseguirem impedir a ação, eles questionam os patrões, e descobrem que os equipamentos estão sendo transportados a fábricas mais baratas. A intenção é fechar o local, deixando dezenas de trabalhadores desempregados. Começa a luta do grupo para manter seus empregos, sua dignidade e questionar o sistema que permite que essa situação aconteça.
We stare at mirrors as if 'image' was a weapon of self-defense. At night, I hide in actors' dressing rooms for a working class experience. By day, I face an old theatre being razed to the ground, making way for a parking lot. Graffitis have curtains, the nose cap of an umbrella arises from a mount of sand. Oh, Happy Days! No need to stage anything! The bulldozer is a dinosaur whose teeth and gracious neck swings by a EU flag. In the boxes, we await the audience. Sometimes, nobody comes. Lost in a symbolic show of reality, I can only watch the world's end because all the endangered species perform and a reflecting labyrinth of life stories breaks through the glass of the Economic Eating Machine. Even when the sky is falling, theatre will always happen. So, choose the right place.
(voice)
São capazes de guardar um segredo?... Este domingo vai ser diferente. Nem pomos os pés dentro do carro. A mãe e o pai não vão discutir e nós vamos brincar num jardim de couves gigantes.
Rapariga no Casting (Uncredited)
Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.
