Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.
Direction
Ferreira stretches 80 minutes of car-bound tension like taffy.
Acting
Filipe Costa sells desperation through a windshield.
Director
António Ferreira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2010 Portuguese gasoline crisis was real; Ferreira weaponized actual national anxiety into Kafkaesque farce.
The car becomes a womb and coffin simultaneously—Ferreira admitted the single-location shoot was born from budget constraints that accidentally improved the metaphor.
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