Description
| Summary: | The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 31 2016). |
| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video (112 min.) : sound, color |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: R; for some language and brief drug use. |
| Awards: | Audience Award Winner, Berlin Film Festival; World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Winner, Sundance Film Festival. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Bárbara Alvarez ; editor, Karen Harley ; art directors, Marcos Pedroso, Thales Junqueria ; costume designers, André Simonetti, Claudia Kopke ; music, Fabio Trummer, Vitor Araújo. |