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The Story: Rio de Janeiro, 70s. Brazil is facing the The Story: When a visionary architect and his wife
increasing harshness of a military dictatorship. A flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild his legacy and
violent and arbitrary act by the military government witness the birth of the modern United States, their
forces Eunice Paiva, a mother of five, to reinvent her lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy
life. client...

Sara Afonso wrote: "Salles' invitation is to enter the João Garção Borges wrote: "In fact, there will
life of a family that one day is only concerned with often be a confrontation between the intellectual
day-to-day issues, the typical fights between siblings, superiority of a “poor” immigrant (who nevertheless
and life's little pleasures, and the next has to mourn, possesses greater wealth in his training and avant-
in its own time and at its own pace, and get back on its garde positioning) and the narrow and much more
feet, accepting that we control nothing except how we conservative perception of reality on the part of his
get back on our feet. Fernanda Torres and Fernanda wealthy interlocutors. These differences between
Montenegro play Eunice at two different moments, European refinement, made here and beyond with
and it is also this generational reunion that shakes many sacrifices, and the practical side of economics
us up and lulls us emotionally, allowing ‘Ainda Estou and profit in the American way, which requires
Aqui’ to stay with us for longer." abandoning bolder solutions in favour of more

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