Luiza Kosovski

Rio, 1971, sous la dictature militaire. La grande maison des Paiva, près de la plage, est un havre de vie, de paroles partagées, de jeux, de rencontres. Jusqu’au jour où des hommes du régime viennent arrêter Rubens, le père de famille, qui disparait sans laisser de traces. Sa femme Eunice et ses cinq enfants mèneront alors un combat acharné pour la recherche de la vérité...

When he learns of his mother’s death, Thomas returns to Brazil with Beni, his partner, and is told he now owns a country house that used to belong to a grandmother he never met. Curious to connect with his family history, they visit the house and Thomas is welcomed by two aunts that treat him like a long-lost child. As Thomas becomes increasingly enchanted with the place, Beni begins to suspect that something lurks beneath the façade of a quiet country life.

Silvia is an introspective young girl who is not interested in the daily routine between family and school. Everything abruptly changes when Artur arrives unexpectedly in her class, after being banned from several other schools. Silvia is amazed by the vitality of the boy, who actually suffers from a serious illness – hemophilia. The two immerse themselves in an intense and brief coexistence, interrupted by an accident in which Artur’s bleeds to death. Silvia gets sick and sees her life turn into a strange nightmare. The mourning gradually becomes an obsession, and obsession becomes a goal – Silvia will do anything to bring him back to life.

Elder and Daiane are a couple in the midst of an urban war: while he fights to survive, their first child is about to be born.