Your perfect life ends where your front door locks.
With the pandemic, Marta discovers that the partner she idealized is, after all, violent. Trapped in the apartment with her abuser, she must choose between her safety and that of her son and the end of a seemingly perfect life.
Acting
Vieira's silent terror speaks louder than any scream.
Direction
Nunes weaponizes apartment walls as psychological prison.
Director
Rita Nunes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Portuguese cinema rarely tackles domestic violence with this raw intimacy; Nunes borrows from the 'cinema of discomfort' tradition of Haneke and Lanthimos.
The apartment was shot chronologically to trap actors in authentic psychological deterioration—Vieira reportedly couldn't sleep in her own home during filming.
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