Desmundo

The account is set in 1570. In that period girls were sent from Portugal to Brazil. Those sent were young women out of orphanages. The aim was to marry them to the settlers’ sons. Oribela is one of these girls. She crosses the ocean by ship. Waiting for her is Francisco de Albuquerque. The man is a settler with sugar cane fields. He is coarse and hard. His mother and his sister live in the house as well. Oribela does not accept this life. She looks for ways to get away. Each attempt brings a different result. The film was adapted from a novel by Ana Miranda. Simone Spoladore and Osmar Prado take the leads in Alain Fresnot’s Brazilian film of 2002.