"You never entered our house after it was finished, all painted. You kept saying you would come, you would come... And then you died, and you never came."
Vitalina Varela, 55-year-old, Cape Verdean, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. The latest from Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa expands an episode from his previous feature Horse Money, in which a Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind.
