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Starring:
Lucia Moniz,
(Love Actually, Second Life) and Diogo
Morgado (upcoming role of Joseph in 2011 release of "Mary Mother
of Christ" with Al Pacino)
In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop
searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name
"Firenze" in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met
30 years previously.
Lisbon,
2007: Joseph is a tormented American seminarian, a member of Opus Dei,
who has come to Lisbon to help organize an exhibition of the Franciscan
Order in Lisbon's Cathedral. The exhibition brings to Portugal a
legendary mirror, "The Mirror of St. Francis of Assisi", that was said
to have allowed St Francis to see the next morning.
On the day of his departure, Joseph, at
the train station, literally bumps into Giulia, a beautiful and
irreverent Italian writer with whom he establishes an immediate
chemistry. Giulia tells Joseph she came to Lisbon to try to find a
mysterious Portuguese singer who her father had a relationship with in
Lisbon before he left to fight for the Portuguese in their colonial
war. In the final letters that this woman had sent to Giulia's father,
her passion and feeling of abandonment seemed to be driving her to
insanity. She was obviously unaware that an accident of war left her
loving soldier with no memories of his past and unable to respond.
Giulia came to Lisbon to bring the tragic news of her father's death
and to return her the letters... but the singer has seemed to disappear.
Joseph,
fascinated by her story, suggests that he and Giulia take advantage of
the 12 hour of delay of their trains, caused by the Pope's visit to
Portugal, to try to find the lost singer. The two depart on a journey
around Lisbon, and discover a mystical city where they experience an
adventure of mutual discovery, of attraction, of secrets and
revelations... and of intimacy and desire.
Seemingly,
the loneliest boy in the world has met the saddest girl and they can
only fail to share a future togetherÖ yet, both with a tragic
past, the new revelations and the old secrets draw them even closer...
Then
Giulia promises Joseph: "If one day you find my book, youíll
find me as well."
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