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A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
Status
Released
Original Language
FR

Maria João Pires
Nicky Koch is in her mid-forties, a successful head buyer at a hip online shop and in a relationship with her much younger colleague Sascha Brehmer. When she defies her bosses, she is fired. Ironically, Sascha should take over her post. In this crisis, the invitation to the 25-year class reunion comes at just the right time. There she meets her old crush, Axel Hartmann, who turns out to be Sascha's father...