Before her wedding, Maria João has doubts and decides to return the boat she had received to her Spanish fiancé. Aboard the sailboat Zéfiro, she crosses southern Portugal and a mysterious, metaphorical, and poetic Andalusia, in a film composed of "two summers separated by half a dozen years, the years marking the end of youth," as director José Álvaro Morais put it. Maria João’s impulsive and hasty journey becomes a kind of road movie.

  • Duration: 119’
  • Production year: 2000
  • Country: PT, ES, FR
  • Language: PT

Montréal World Film Festival 2000 – Official Selection in Competition

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