O Barqueiro

Joaquim is released on parole before the end of his sixteen-year sentence, but he doesn't tell his family. He accepts a job as an illegal boatman on the Tagus River, transporting illegal shellfish gatherers, in order to fulfill a promise he made to his daughter to buy her a piano. Will he succeed? At what cost? With an extraordinary cast, Simão Cayatte's second feature film is a contemporary story of people seeking to overcome their circumstances.