The Paiva family are shattered when Ernesto is abducted by the military junta and Eunice (renowned Brazilian actor -Fernanda Torres, 2025 Golden Globe Winner – Best Actress, and Fernanda Montenegro) must lead their family and fight for justice.
Salles’ adaptation of Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir is a profoundly moving portrait of resistance – the intelligent and humane kind of cinema we have come to expect from the director of Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries.