- Autran Dourado // Voices of the Dead
In the manor house of a small Brazilian town live two women: Rosalina and her mute servant Quiquina. By day Rosalina makes fabric flowers and observes the life of the town from her window; by night she drinks, secretly. Her isolation - the legacy of a feud between her father and the townspeople - is absolute until the arrival of José Feliciano, a bastard mulatto who is given the job of handyman at the manor. His presence adds a volatile element to the intense and claustrophobic atmosphere - and when he becomes Rosalina's lover, her precarious-stability is destroyed.