She loved the devil who ran Portuguese football's underbelly. The real crime? She stayed.
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.
Acting
Vila-Nova's devastating slow-dawning horror
Direction
Botelho's clinical, unflinching gaze
Writing
Dialogue that reveals through what's unsaid
Director
João Botelho
Nicolau Breyner
the Presidente
Margarida Vila-Nova
Sofia
António Pedro Cerdeira
Luis, the police inspector
Alexandra Lencastre
Sofia's mother
André Gomes
the President's lawyer
Dinarte Branco
the medic
Filipe Vargas
an agent of the PJ
João Cabral
an editor
João Lagarto
Figueira
João Ricardo
business man
José Eduardo
the Admiral
José Raposo
the inspector of the PJ
Luís Soveral
member of the Parliament
Miguel Guilherme
the president of the referees
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Portuguese football corruption scandals of the 2000s were so pervasive they spawned multiple films; this is the only one told through a woman's perspective.
Botelho deliberately avoided naming the real club involved, but every Portuguese viewer knew immediately — the silence itself becomes accusation.
PT
