Thirty-something Vítor still lives with his mother, Fátima, in his grandmother Júlia’s apartment. Fátima is a hairdresser with a quiet disposition who, at night, fantasises about the policeman who has just moved in next door. By day, Vítor is a lowly employee on a TV show. But at night, he dons his neighbour’s uniform to win the favour and satisfy the desires of a boy he’s met online. In her retirement home, Júlia is unable to sleep at night and has long forgotten what drugs she is meant to be taking. She misses her dead husband, who manifests himself in the body of a living friend, and gets involved in her daily activities. Through these characters, Diogo Costa Amarante constructs a fascinating portrait of lives lived while desires remain unrealised.
Regina Guimarães was born in Porto and is a poet, filmmaker, playwright and lyricist. Together with her partner Serge Abramovici (Saguenail), with whom she has lived since 1975, she founded the publishing house Hélastre. She was a university lecturer at FLUP, ESMAE and ESAD. Her work is developed simultaneously or alternately in various artistic areas that often dialog with each other. She is the author of plays and children's songs, a writer of scripts for films, a lyricist and a video director.