SO HARD TO FORGET

(Como esquecer)

by Malu de Martino

Brasil 2010, 100 min

Production: EH! Filmes

After the breakup with her enigmatic girlfriend Antonia, 35-year-old English Literature teacher Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful situation. Her life and values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her thoughts seem to be reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil complicates the readaption to a new life. But throughout this process, she finds new friends like Helena who also struggles with the experience of loss in her live. Julia immediately feels attracted to her. Sharing the same experience of pain and solicitude the two women get closer...