Nuno Mendonça

Melgaço, Parada do Monte. The memory of a chance encounter on the border between the real and the imagined, the affection and superstition, has been passed down from generation to generation.

Three strangers arrive at Ribeiro de Baixo, a village on the Minho border, where mysterious night lights foretell the death of its inhabitants. In the silence of the valley, Áurea and Umbelina spend their days watching over the cattle across the border, sharing stories of encounters with wolves and ancestral customs. From France, the grandchildren arrive and casually join the village in witnessing the twilight of a generation and a way of life.

Oranges, or "apples from paradise", once considered sources of eternal youth, can be eaten as they are or squeezed for their juice. They may be bitter or sweet, like love. In the morning they are healthy, in the afternoon they aren't bad, but at night they are deadly. Modern myths about insomnia and other emotional plagues.