Abraham's Valley | Cinema Cycle Portas Abertas

Abraham’s Valley is the story of Ema, a woman of menacing beauty. For Carlos, her husband, whom she married without love, ‘hers was a face which could justify a man’s life’. Her taste for luxury, her illusions in life and the desire which she inspired in men, earned her the name of ‘the little Madame Bovary’. She would have three lovers, but her successive loves brought her no more than a feeling of great disillusion so that she came to think of herself as nothing more than ‘a soul in a state of balance’. Ema dies — ‘accidently, perhaps?’ — on a day of glorious sunshine, after dressing as if she were going to a ball.