A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise they’re getting lonely. Hellish summer ends and we’re on a little fishing village, river-side, in Lisbon’s south bank: people make life-changing decisions.
Cinematography
Golden-hour river light that makes decay look gorgeous.
Acting
Beatriz Batarda's silences speak entire novels.
Direction
Morais lets time itself become the antagonist.

Director
José Álvaro Morais
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Barreiro, an industrial Lisbon suburb rarely romanticized on screen—Morais grew up here.
Morais died in 2004; this was his penultimate film, and critics now read it as unintentionally autobiographical.