Rosa, a Mozambican peasant, is accused by the family of her husband of having caused his suicide by refusing to obey him.
[1] According to the director, “It was a difficult task to convince both families – the wife’s and the dead husband’s – to participate in the film, since the conflict was far from being over.
Every time there was a pause in the shooting the conflict would resume on a parallel level, with unpredictable events on both sides.
This made me bring a second camera into the scene in order to register such events and those situations in which the main characters would ignore the script and try to introduce other elements, or simply refuse to stick to it.
Since it was so closely related to the story, this ‘making of’ became a fundamental element in the dramatic structure of the film”.