A film about loneliness and identically repeated days that, before being days, are a set of identically repeated small gestures, and on top of that, the silence that announces the absence. In Catarina Romano’s “Howsoever”, a woman has been locked inside her house for a long time, unemployed, locked outside the possibilities of her time, locked inside herself.
As she gets older, Oma’s perception begins to change. While her daughter tries to adapt to her new situation, she seems to sink deeper and deeper into herself.
In a city that was once typically Portuguese, a real estate agent tries to persuade customers to rent tiny apartments, even if it means evicting the people who live there.
