Bruma Filmes

A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga and pray. We follow them between October 2012 and March 2013, when an economic crisis overshadowed Portuguese society and unemployment rates reached record levels. Meanwhile, arrangements are made for the Carnival ball. Will they bring the first place home this time?

When the director left Naples, he knew it was forever. He would never come back. Though he left a part of himself there: in those streets, on that beach, beneath the ruins.