Apartment hunting in São Paulo becomes an existential crisis with better lighting.
Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.
Acting
Andréia Horta's micro-expressions speak entire monologues.
Cinematography
São Paulo's golden light and cramped apartments as emotional landscape.
Direction
Aïnouz lets scenes breathe past comfort into revelation.
Director
Karim Aïnouz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a Brazilian TV-film hybrid movement where directors like Aïnouz explored working-class female interiority rarely seen in mainstream Brazilian cinema.
The children's show business subplot mirrors Alice's own performative stability—she's producing happy endings she doesn't believe in. The film knows this and doesn't say it aloud.
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