Alice Ruiz

Mr. Jacinto, a lonely, repetitious and well-groomed gentleman, is finally given, after many attempts, an opportunity to appear as a breaking news piece on television.

In a nearby future, where the male gender is banned, a woman discovers that her missing mother, a scientist, was growing a man in her lab. While she tries to understand the motive for her mother's actions, she develops a peculiar relationship with this man.

In a small hill near the village of Gerês, called Penedo da Freira, lies a tombstone that appears to mark a site of passion between a Portuguese nun and a Spaniard soldier near the end of the 18th century. The legend described in the stone becomes a target of obsession for a young director as he plunges two actors into reliving its words.

Seven childhood friends, in their mid twenties, honor their annual summer tradition by spending a week in a seaside town, forcing them to confront the memories of a complicated past.

The life of a Portuguese woman.