After 12 years, Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) makes a triumphant return with this absorbing, personal, and deeply felt telling of one family’s struggle against Brazil’s military dictatorship.

In 1970s Rio, left-leaning ex-congressman Rubens Paiva returns to his happy, well-off household while continuing to fight for change – only for soldiers to take him one night without warning or explanation. Against threats and worse from those in power, his wife takes a public stand to find out what happened to him, all while fighting to keep the family he left behind together. Long established as Brazil’s top director, Salles draws from a true story

of its history: he makes the country-wide tyranny, strength, and love that form it hit deeper than ever. Fernanda Torres gives a world-class performance as the unsinkable wife and mother.