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In the near future, humanity is heading toward extinction: women can no longer conceive, and the rare children who are actually born are mutants, eliminated by the authorities. Judite Foster is an exception. After six pregnancies terminated by state order, she becomes pregnant again and flees with her husband to an abandoned hotel, where they are cared for by the enigmatic Dr. Gould. Adapting J. G. Ballard, Solveig Nordlund transforms the ruins of the Tróia resort complex into a post-apocalyptic landscape of unsettling beauty. Ballard himself praised the adaptation, highlighting the way the director introduced a female perspective into a story that, in his words, “concerns all women.”

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