Natureza morta

Clarissa Ramalho

Still Life tells the story of Lenita, a 22-year-old motherless girl, raised and educated by her father who insists that she get married, arguing that marriage is a matter of physiological necessity. Her father dies and Lenita decides to move to Colonel Barbosa’s farm – a man who was her father’s tutor and raised him. During his stay on the farm, he meets Manuel Barbosa, a 40-year-old man who is separated but officially married, and has an intense secret romance with him. The story takes a tragic turn when Lenita discovers herself pregnant. The central theme of Still Life is hysteria, which will be based on a free adaptation of the novel A carne (1888), by Júlio Ribeiro.