A mother disappears into her own history to find the daughter time stole.
Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
Direction
Heloísa films her own mother with brutal, loving honesty—no distance, no safety.
Editing
Past and present collapse; home video and testimony become indistinguishable wounds.
Director
Heloísa Passos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eneida Passos had never spoken on camera before her daughter convinced her; the film's existence is itself the family's first act of public truth-telling.
The film emerged from Brazil's 2018 political rupture, when women's hidden labor and silenced stories became urgent political currency—Eneida's private archive became collective testimony.
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