Nourished by pain it corrupts the intimacy of a couple that has lost their child The mother Gracinda Nave refuses to speak transforming their home in a place of mourning where memories shatter lovers ruining the relation with her husband José Airosa The original soundtrack is in itself a metaphor of how one can escape from grief in a way the final duet symbolizes everything unsaid between them through out the film The director Margarida Leitão employs the symbology of a balloon a puzzle and some drawings to create little flashes of a past filled with colour A chromatic journey across the instants of another life when we could hear a childs laughter and the house was filled with joy But now the house is an empty space where the two lovers drift apart
