After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Social & External
The people behind it
Mariya Lipkina
Tina
Vanda Duarte
Clotilde
Nuno Vaz
The Father
Isabel Ruth
Nurse Eduarda Gomes
Miguel Sermão
Clotilde's husband
Berta Susana Teixeira
Nurse
Inês de Medeiros
The Girl
Anna Carvalho
Prostitute
Ana Marta
Clotilde Montron
Friend
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