Year: 1984
Runtime: 85 mins
Language: Portuguese
Director: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principle, leads the case against Joana, a schoolteacher accused of political crimes. After several false leads he arrests her, only to discover she is also a nun. The revelation does not spare her from torture to force a confession, and Rui finds his duty tangled with a growing attraction to her.
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