Henrique Espírito Santo

A temperamental old woman, her Cape Verdean maid and a neighbour devoted to social causes live on the same floor of a Lisbon apartment building. When the old lady dies, the other two learn of an episode from her past: a tale of love and crime set in an Africa straight from the world of adventure films.

Joana, a surrogate for domestic violence victims, delivers testimonies of women who ran away but never stopped living with the ghosts of their pasts.