This film, that succeeds the multi-awarded “Bird of Prey” (which was also selected in 2006 to the same French festival), introduces us to João, the only employee that we can see in Morais Key Cutting shop. He is also the son of the owner and he doesn’t hesitate about leaving the shop and following his heart’s whispers to spend coin after coin in the slot of a Love Machine. Marta of the Hills is a Fine Art Student who brings an unusual request. The key that João duplicates for her opens more than a single door.
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According to the director “There are no believers like João nor are there students with so much openness like Marta of the Hills. Fortunately there are good writers. One of them is Machado de Assis who gives us a good piece of advice:
“…Go love, young men! And, above all, love beautiful and gracious young women; they cure evil, they perfume decay, they exchange death for life… Go love, young men!”