Laura Soveral (23 March 1933 in Benguela, Angola – 12 July 2018) was a Portuguese actress. She has performed in more than seventy films.
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
This Portuguese drama examines the daily life minutiae and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village where they live. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own.
In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.