A boat called Pandora, a man who vanishes, and two women who don't look back.
It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life...
Cinematography
Lisbon at night—misty streets, yellow lights, impossible beauty.
Acting
Cottençon and de Medeiros: desire and grief in every glance.
Director
António da Cunha Telles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Portugal's post-EU anxiety, the film captures a nation questioning traditional structures—family, gender, work—through intimate, almost whispered rebellion.
The boat's name is no accident: Pandora's box releases chaos, but here what's released is possibility. The film inverts the myth—hope isn't trapped inside; it escapes with the women.
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