It is a film about the past in search of justice on the present days.
A banal event, resurrects the ghosts of the Estado Novo dictatorship, still very present in some of its victims, though they never evoke it verbally. The course memories that resurfaced in the figure of a torturer of the regime who fled to Brazil after the April 25th, 1974 and forty years later is back been judged by the trampling of a child in Portugal. During the trial he is recognized by one of the people he tortured and all the revolts he buried in the depths of his soul are back to the surface clamoring for revenge. I liked this film for its intelligence, by addressing a topic that is still taboo in Portuguese society without denigrating it and the idea of double trial, First, Mendes Oliveira, killed a child and once again is not judged by those facts, he leaves another victim who has to carry this burden in this case the mother. On the other hand, Jaime and Miguel, two of his previous victims recognize him and decide to judge him on its own, setting themselves the rules of this very dangerous game. The script written by Izaías Almada and João Nunes is wonderful in the way develops the moral and ethical dilemmas of the characters, by playing with their anxieties, with their strengths and their weaknesses. If I had to assign grades, this movie would surely have the maximum price. There is a great psychological tension created skillfully director Leonel Vieira and a team of heavyweights, established actors, which printed great veracity to this characters and a depth that does not leave us indifferent. Makes you think. What would you do if you saw your worst nightmare? Did you seek for revenge? In what way? And I guarantee that there are surprises in this movie. This is an excellent example of Portuguese cinema and I demand you see it. Good movie!
