Cast
João Pedro Vaz Alice Albergaria Borges 
Beatriz Batarda Clara Jost Tomás Gomes Dinis Gomes
Credits
Written by: 
Teresa Villaverde
Plot
During the Portuguese economic crisis, a family waits for the father to find a job while a teenage daughter and her mother fall apart, in a slow, minimal drama of decay.
Sinekatalog’s take
A slow, bleak and powerful portrait of the crisis.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.7 / 10 (416 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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