A middle-aged woman and her son live on a ramshackle farm near the sea. The son’s two passions are his roses and a young man he keeps in the barn. A perverse triangle forms: the woman and the young man each have their own anguished rituals, while the son alternates between ignoring his mother’s excessive concern and engaging in a baroque and increasingly sadomasochistic worship of his lover’s body.

New restoration print.

Paulo Branco receives the Leon Cakoff Prize at this 50th Mostra.