Regina Casé’s warm and spirited performance would be enough to make anyone fall head-over-heels in love with this double story about a mother’s sacrifice to support her children and Brazil's changing class society. Val (Casé) has worked for 13 years as a live-in au pair to raise a wealthy couple’s only child. We soon discover Val’s resilience, hard work and cheerful acceptance of her condition are motivated by traditional values of servitude towards one’s employers and children, but those firm beliefs start to fall apart when her daughter, Jessica (Camila Márdila) comes to live with her. Jessica's arrival challenges the apparently open-minded wealthy couple and Val, who, in her microcosm, has to face the progressive social changes that Brazil has been going through in recent times.

(English subtitles available)

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