Mum

Doing the household chores and taking care of her two young sons is an inescapable routine that Sandra, an immigrant from Mexico, follows daily. It makes her feel hopelessly tired but still, her attentive care for both the sons and her intimacy with them remain unaffected. The boys’ father —Sandra’s Portuguese husband— appears to be a distant man at home. His absence is felt in his mute presence. Nothing exciting happens in this Lisbon suburb, as Sandra’s monotonous marriage reaches its climax. Hitting a definitive point of exhaustion, she attempts to break out of her normative duties of being a mother or a wife.