

Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's best-selling memoir in which his mother is forced into activism when her husband was captured by a military regime in Brazil, 1964.
Brazil, 1971. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.
The film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
- Director
- Walter Salles
- Cast
- Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro, Maeve Jinkings, Humberto Carrão
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating
- M ( Mature themes, violence, coarse language and nudity)
- Runtime
- 136 min