Luís Filipe Rocha • Portugal • feature • 2003 • 93’ • color • 35 mm-1.85 • Dolby SRD
with Leonor Seixas, João Ricardo, João Pedro Vaz, Maria João Falcão, Cristóvãa Campos…

Mariana, 17 year old, is raped by a drug addict and gets pregnant. She decides to hide the situation from everyone and to face this tragedy alone. This will be her “passage” into adulthood.

“You cannot remain unmoved by such a film as Mariana starts an unpleasant fight to prevent her parents from knowing she has been raped and that her attacker has made her pregnant. This very heartrending film allows us to understand how difficult it is to accept the consequences of such an act.” Alexandra S.