Vítor Moreira

Miguel and Beatriz have been married for seven years, but mutual love is no longer part of their lives. Now, while Miguel surfs the Internet and hides in computer games, Beatriz takes refuge in television programs dedicated to restoring dilapidated houses, gardens, and rooms. Each in their own world, life becomes virtual, in exchange for reality. Then the unexpected happens. The door is locked from the inside and the couple finds themselves unable to return. Locked on the balcony of that villa isolated from the world, Miguel and Beatriz now have to live together.

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Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s overly protracted opening has car’s drivers (Filipe Cochofel, Antonio Pedro Figueiredo) joy riding the night away until the roadster breaks down. Momentum picks up at sunrise with their attempts to fix the car. A retired mechanic-turned-beekeeper with a heart condition (Canto e Castro) does the trick and convinces Figueiredo to take him cross-country on a motorbike to look up an old friend. Cochofel and the mechanic’s alarmed niece (Maysa Marta) follow in pursuit. The old man dies peacefully on the road, but Figueiredo, having wholeheartedly grasped his deliverance mission, keeps going.

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Miguel and Beatriz have been married for seven years, but mutual love is no longer part of their lives. Now, while Miguel surfs the Internet and hides in computer games, Beatriz takes refuge in television programs dedicated to restoring dilapidated houses, gardens, and rooms. Each in their own world, life becomes virtual, in exchange for reality. Then the unexpected happens. The door is locked from the inside and the couple finds themselves unable to return. Locked on the balcony of that villa isolated from the world, Miguel and Beatriz now have to live together.

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