During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.
4th May 2001
25 years ago
1 hour 55 minutes
Finishes at 3:42am
1 win & 1 nomination
6.7/10
70%
69%
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