

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
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.