“Barbarism is the result of the vain attempt to give form to formless visceral depths”.
“The worst thing about barbarism is not its destruction of form, but its arrogance in presuming itself to have form: the violence characteristic of the lumpen and graceless” – José Gil

“Portugal is a country of easy-going ways.” False, for there’s nothing easy-going about the ways of the Portuguese interior with its mean-spirited crimes. It’s a distant, hypocritical world where sordidness and uncouth violence reign. And it’s this hidden world of violence and extremes that forms the setting for a revisiting of the myth of Electra, the confrontation of a daughter with a mother who was incapable of loving her.

A mother who gives life to another should give unconditional love at the same time, a mother should give the illusion of absolute love. If the mother betrays the trust this love is built on, resentment grows to monstrous proportions, all that remains is a grudge that feeds on hopes of revenge, grudge and the desire for revenge become conditions for survival.

João Canijo