[2] In Portugal, in the year 2000, Isaac, a young Sefardic photographer rents an apartment in a modest pension of Senhora Justina, in Peso da Régua.

On a rainy night, he is suddenly woken up to help a wealthy family with an extraordinary task: to take the last portrait of their daughter, Angélica, a young woman who died soon after her own wedding.

The next day, the photographer returns to the activity that brought him to the Douro region and goes out to document the old methods of working in the vineyards, with special attention to the so-called «earth diggers».

Gradually, the photographer becomes exhausted and more and more distances himself from the environment that surrounds him and from his life and social routine, until he ends up succumbing without apparent explanation.

Keith Uhlich of Time Out New York named The Strange Case of Angelica the sixth-best film of 2010, calling it "the greatest man-falls-in-love-with-a-ghost story ever directed by a 101-year-old.