Five brothers end up being raised by their older brother after their mother's death. One day, as adults, they receive the news that a comatose man in an ICU could be their father. In the hospital's waiting room, the brothers immerse themselves in their conflicts and memories, and through the knitting learned in childhood.
Acting
Ensemble chemistry simmers with decades of unspoken history.
Direction
Pinheiro traps grief in sterile waiting rooms, claustrophobic and tender.
Director
Cláudia Pinheiro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film reflects Brazil's ongoing reckoning with absent fathers and working-class family structures rarely centered in prestige cinema.
The knitting motif wasn't metaphorical—cast trained for months, and the props were authentic childhood pieces from the director's own family.
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