The Box | Cinema Cycle Portas Abertas

In an inclined street of a popular Lisbon quarter, Alfama, an old blind man has lost his box, where he keeps the charity alms. All he keeps in that old box painted with the mysterious initials ABLE, one can say that it is all that he can live from. The blind man’s daughter, always distracted with the housework, falls into a pile of clothes that she washes for her clients. Her unemployed husband (like most of his friends), lives from the blind man alms and from her wife work. When the charity-box disappears, it all ends in a violent, almost tragic, conflict. But every cloud has a silver lining…