The Road to Til

After a few no-gooders from Salley village beat up a boy from a neighbouring village, a long-running feud over a contested forest flares up. With the insurgency at its peak, the rebel commander suggests this dispute be settled through a game of football. In the midst of all this tension a new teacher is appointed to the village school. Will this versatile stranger provide a solution or cause even more trouble?

A young woman struggles to provide for her son while waiting to receive money from her husband. When she hears that a neighbour’s husband has returned from abroad with gifts, she undertakes the long, humbling journey to visit them, in this lyrical, emotional, and richly textured drama.

The movie Is set in a fairytale village, one lost to old time. This town is on the border between Portugal and Spain. People have lived here for centuries. During the day not much is happening. People who I portrayed are continuously doing the same things. Following the same routine of waiting next to the church, going to the bar for a coffee. But unlike other towns the energy of this village is divided into two parts. As the light starts to settle and darkness takes over the village all of a sudden the mystery and magic that did not exist during the day, knocks on the door of this town. And the viewer finds out that in this village the night belongs to mystery.

Once married to the same man, two women in their seventies must forget the past and work together to look after an empty, snowbound village for the whole winter.