What happens when your own mind becomes a stranger? This quiet Portuguese gut-punch knows.
The story of a man who sees his life change radically upon confronting his progressive loss of memory. As his neurological condition advances, it affects not only his own life but the lives of all those who surround him.
Acting
José Airosa's fragile, vanishing presence — you watch him disappear.
Direction
Margarida Gil's 63-minute restraint, no melodrama, just ache.
Director
Margarida Gil
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Margarida Gil shot this in just 15 days with a skeleton crew, partly financed by Portuguese public television — explaining its urgent, unpolished intimacy.
Part of a wave of 2010s Portuguese cinema confronting aging and healthcare collapse; rarely distributed outside Iberia, making it virtually unknown even to cinephiles.
PT
