Terra Vil

João is 12 years old and lives on the banks of the Douro River with his unstable father, António, who struggles with alcoholism. Next door live Teresa and her teenage daughters, Paula and Liliana, for whom João feels a special devotion. The five of them form a kind of dysfunctional family, built around a small-scale craft of fishing and selling lamprey. However, in a year plagued by drought and the effects of climate change, the business yields little profit, and António’s erratic behavior makes the situation increasingly unsustainable.