António, an absentee father, is in charge of feeding his daughter’s old cat while she’s on vacation. When the cat doesn’t show up, António convinces himself that something bad might’ve happened as he stumbles on small clues. Do these signs corroborate his beliefs or is António projecting his worst fear, facing death? Cat sitting turned into an existential thriller.
What wouldn’t an absent father do for his daughter? He agrees to look after a cat whose habits he doesn’t know and whom he’s never cared for; he doesn’t know what to do with it, nor how to find it. The cat’s disappearance is the premise for a film that speaks to us of absences (we never see the daughter, we only hear her) and the fear of death. Will a father who has never looked after his daughter know how to look after a cat? And if something has happened to it, what will happen to him? This double mirror, in the form of an existential thriller as described by the directing duo André Santos and Marco Leão, will make us laugh until we are left with doubts, a whirlwind of emotions, just like life that never stops, always heading towards the end. The duo, returning to the short film format, offers us the melancholy of their earlier, more intimate films, in a unique portrayal of a situation, delivering a mature and intelligent direction, and allowing the great actor Miguel Guilherme to shine, who here offers us yet another of his brilliant performances. (Miguel Valverde)
