Monica de Oliveira

Daia, Monica and Le, inseparable friends. Study, work, laugh and cry, love and kissing, being a daughter and being a mother, and mixed it all together at the same time. Seriously, is not easy! Filmed in the village of Trancoso, in Bahia, reconstitutes the local universe, with the cast, scenery and stories of the region.

Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.