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.
May 4, 2001
Released
Ganhar a Vida
1h 55min
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French, Portuguese
Madragoa FilmesInstituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e MultimédiaGemini Films