Maria João Abreu

A story of political corruption involving a small town mayor and a prostitute, both investigated by a temperamental cop.

She's a journalist. He's a corrector of the stock market. Both of them live in the same private high security building but never met.

'This war turns us all into insects struggling for survival' writes young military doctor António to his pregnant wife in Portugal in 1971. He has been posted to Angola to serve in the Portuguese Colonial War. His words are full of pain but also tenderness, filled with a deep longing for his beloved wife and their unborn child... (berlinale.de)

A woman files a case in court against her own husband, on the charge of rape.