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A poetic exploration of three generations of women, sometimes close, sometimes distant, but always connected.
Manuel, an elderly deaf and mute man who had suffered a stroke, has just arrived at a nursing home and establishes a tender relationship with a nurse, rejuvenating his troubled relationship with his father.
The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.
An unusual celebration combines Dinis' birthday party with his grandmother's funeral. The birthday boy is, in this embarrassing context, bombarded with inopportune questions by his family while he processes the loss of his grandmother.
Four pre-teenagers investigate the kidnapping of a schoolmate until they reach a witch, Romanova, who takes another friend before disappearing. Fifteen years later, Romanova reappears and one of the survivors must rally the rest to put an end to her.
Two revolutionaries arrange a clandestine meeting to convince a factory worker to join them on a strike.
Matilde travels to her family’s village due to her great-grandmother’s passing. After the funeral, she reconnects with the place where she spent her childhood, learning about the experiences that she and her mother have shared in the same house.
Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashier at a supermarket by day and at night works in a strip club, trying not only to raise her children but also to pay off the debts that her ex-partner left her. Harassed in both jobs, one day she reacts violently when a nightclub client is more daring, being sentenced in court to perform community service in a nursing home, where her irreverence and youth will clash with the authoritarianism and inhumanity of the director. For the elderly who live in the nursing home, Vera is a breath of fresh air that little by little will change their lives, becoming the true home fairy…
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
Marta is passionate about her new hobby: bird-watching. Before her big audition to become a professional dancer, she tries to gather courage to tell her mother that she doesn't want to dance anymore.