Directed by: Raquel Jacinto Nunes
Written by: Luís Mário Lopes
Short film, 2004
Far from everything, surrounded by empty fields, Maria is a toll collector at a highway exit where cars only pass occasionally… and often by mistake. One day, a more abrupt gesture causes her glasses to fall and the lenses to break. Her myopia envelops her in a mysterious and beautiful diffuse world that had always been there but which she had never noticed.
Maria falls in love with a traveler, Mário. Everything seems perfect, but after some time, he insists on taking her some place else. For Maria, this thought is inconceivable. Her whole world is there. Mário returns. She insists that he must not come back. Mário’s van skids off the road. Maria dances with him, knowing that we are forever condemned to be one half of an impossible dream.
2006
Lisbon Village Festival – Lisboa, Portugal
Prémio Tóbis, Melhor Produção Portuguesa
2005
11º Festival Ibérico de Cinema – Badajoz, Espanha
7th International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers of Film and Vídeo – Grécia
XII Caminhos do Cinema Português – Coimbra, Portugal
PATRÍCIA GUERREIRO – Maria
FRANCISCO NASCIMENTO – Mário
TIAGO REIS – colega
PEDRO CALDAS – condutor
LUÍS MÁRIO LOPES – polícia
ROSA FREITAS — amante
Director: Raquel Jacinto Nunes
Screenplay: Luís Mário Lopes
Sound Editing: Tiago Matos
Production Manager: Isabel Silva
Executive Producer: Luís Alvarães
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