Lara Mesquita

Zeca was jailed for a crime he didn't participate, now he's free and while trying to make a new life he encounters a kid, surprisingly the boy is Ema's son, his long time lover.

Luíza Albuquerque sees her life collapse after her daughter runs away from the altar. Shortly after, in an increasingly stifling relationship, she receives a fatal sentence: she has only one year to live, and no amount of money in the world, which she has accumulated – not always in the best way – will be able to save her. Faced with this revelation, she decides to be happy in the short time she has left, even if it means ruining the lives of her sisters and her own daughter.

An actress without a job, an artist who struggles to paint and a marketing student from Coimbra. These three young women together, their financial difficulties and existential doubts. Living on a small apartment in Lisbon, they see themselves as allies (most of the time) on the great battle of building their lives. They must share their personal space, food, issues and all kind of awkward situations that life brings upon them.

It tells the story of Alex, a 25-year-old keyboard player who moves to Lisbon to challenge himself. He is consumed by the precarious environment affecting the country, full of young people working on temporary contracts who have no working conditions or right to unemployment benefits—this constant struggle that tests us every day, the loss of identity, and the attempts to find it.

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized gods, demigods, heroes, and other pagan figures of Greek mythology, who question, through the imaginary of myths, the society of contemporary man. Out of a time and a certain space, and thus, and like all myths, always current.

Idling afternoons, drugs, heartbreaks, psychedelic moods immersed in music. An adrenaline rush. Lisbon as the backdrop for a drifting youth.