Top Cast
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Mariya Lipkina
Tina
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Vanda Duarte
Clotilde
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Nuno Vaz
The Father
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Isabel Ruth
Nurse Eduarda Gomes
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Miguel Sermão
Clotilde's husband
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Berta Susana Teixeira
Nurse
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Inês de Medeiros
The Girl
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Anna Carvalho
Prostitute
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Ana Marta
Overview
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
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