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.

• DirectorPedro Costa
• Release14 November 1997
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 37m
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  6.7
  45 reviews
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  Madragoa Filmes, Gemini Films, Zentropa Entertainments