Brazil, the 1970s. Contagem is still a growing town and the home of a young couple in love. Gilberto asks for Jacira’s forgiveness just before an unexpected encounter changes the course of their lives. Fifty years later, Gilberto and Jacira are still together. A charismatic and gentle couple in their mid-seventies, they lead a happy life despite the health problems that come with age, sharing almost all of their daily activities side by side. When Jacira is suddenly hospitalised, Gilberto begins to experience disturbing events – in a spiral through time and space – that lead him towards the unknown.
André Novais Oliveira
Born in 1984 in Contagem (Brazil). A partner at the production company Filmes de Plástico, his film ‘Fantasmas’ (2010) was named the most influential Brazilian short film of the century. His feature-length debut, ‘She Comes Back on Thursday’ (2014), won the Special Jury Prizeat Bafici, and his next feature, ‘Long Way Home’ (2018), competed at Locarno. His short films‘About a Month’ (2013) and ‘Quintal’ (2015) were selected for Cannes, and histhird feature, ‘The Day I Met You’ (2023), had its world premiere at Mar delPlata. He has published ‘Na zona Leste’ (Quijote, 2026), his first novel, and isputting the finishing touches to his second book, a collection of short stories. ‘If I Were Alive’ 2026), his fourth feature film, had its world premiere in the Panorama section of theBerlin Film Festival.
DIRECTOR
André Novais Oliveira
SCREENPLAY
André Novais Oliveira
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Leonor Teles
EDITOR
Gabriel Martins, André Novais Oliveira
SOUND
Pablo Lamar, Gustavo Fioravante
MUSIC
Metá Metá
PRODUCTION
Thiago Macêdo Correia
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Filmes de Plástico, Canal Brasil
CAST
Conceição Evaristo, Norberto Novais Oliveira, Jean Paulo Campos, Tainá Evaristo
