Metamorphosis

Portugal, 1938. Under the weight of the Estado Novo regime, the afforestation law transforms entire villages: communal lands are expropriated, subsistence farming withers, and the silence of the mountains echoes with contained revolt. António Claro leaves his homeland and finds refuge in the highest settlement of the Serra of Lousã, where he builds a family and a future in a place fertile, abundant in water and life. Yet prosperity conceals an underground tension: as the winds of modernity blow, neighboring villages are deserted, and his children too, depart in search of a future in the cities. Only the youngest remains, caught between the heritage of the land and the promises of progress. In him lies the fate of these lands, suspended between roots and rupture.