Hermila, a strong willed woman who leaves Sao Paolo with her infant son to return to her home town of Igatu in central Brazil. Igatu is a poor village and life there is simple and uneventful. Hermila moves into her grandmother's house ...
Roy Scheider (Jaws, The French Connection), Daryl Hannah (A Walk to Remember, Kill Bill), and Jonathan Scarfe (Raising the Bar, ER) star in this award-winning drama set at the dawn of World War II.