Release Date
02 Apr, 1999
Runtime
01:22: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money. At first Eugenio's sister Idalina assists him in creating the character of Maria da Luz. Touched by her sweetness and apparent loving nature, the trucker willingly sends her money. When Idalina starts fearing they will be caught, she backs out of her arrangement with Eugenio who then convinces his young cellmate Vasco to help write the letters and even sends a picture of himself at age seven to "prove" that Maria has a young son. As prison life exacts an increasingly heavy toll upon Eugenio's health, his feminine alter-ego helps sustain him.
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Actors
Canto e Castro
Francisco Nascimento
Henrique Viana
Zita Duarte
Rita Blanco
Rogério Samora
José Mora Ramos
Heitor Lourenço
José Pinto
Fernando Heitor
Catarina Furtado
Paulo Oom
Mário Moutinho
António Calvário
Luís Lucas
Miguel Hurst
Luís Alberto
Natália Luiza
Crew
Laurent Machuel
João Mário Grilo
Paulo Branco
Riccardo Del Fra
Paulo Filipe
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