Plot
On her birthday, Joana's joy turns to despair when her abusive husband discovers her pregnancy and attempts to harm her. Fleeing the city, she finds refuge on a boat with criminals, but realizing the danger, she sees land beyond so leaps into the water and swims to Terceira Island, leaving her life behind. Exhausted on the shore, she encounters Chico, a lost child, during a religious ceremony. Joana arrives with the child, inadvertently becoming mistaken for a saint 'Our Lady of the Sea', revered by the island's faithful.
Cast
as Joana Gonçalves Pedrosa
as Manuel Bettencourt
as Maria Silva Castro
as Pedro Bettencourt
as Padre Filipe Pinheiro
as Artur Bettencourt
as Francisca Medeiros
as Paula Soares
as Susana Cordeiro
as Alexandre "Alex" Borges