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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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Cast
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Canto e Castro
Eugénio
Known for
Foreign Land
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Francisco Nascimento
Vasco
Also in
Desert Rose
Haircut
Paulo Branco
Riccardo Del Fra
João Mário Grilo
Also in
The King's Trial
A Vossa Terra
Paulo Filipe
Also in
Strawberries with Sugar
Codename: Sintra
Henrique Viana
Abel
Also in
Recollections of the Yellow House
Doomed Love
Jean Dubreuil
Zita Duarte
Idalina
Also in
A Bee in the Rain
Nós Por Cá Todos Bem
Rita Blanco
Rute
Known for
The Gilded Cage
Amour
Laurent Machuel
Rogério Samora
Warden
Known for
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
April Captains
João Mário Grilo Director · Paulo Filipe Screenplay Laurent Machuel Cinematographer
First release September 12, 1998 · Produced in France, Portugal · Production Gemini Films
Production
Madragoa Filmes
Production
Gemini Films
Production · Distribution
France · Portugal
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Portuguese
Spoken on screen
Portuguese
Release dates
Italy · September 12, 1998
Premiere
Portugal · April 2, 1999
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
February 17, 1999
Greece
November 19, 2000
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