What would become of us without the help of what does not exist? Paul Valéry asks in an intertitle of this film. Tomé’s birth was miraculous. On his 18th birthday he will leave for Senhora da Graça to fulfill the promise made by his old parents. Jorge Cramez cradles his character with sweetness and with the precision of someone who knows the depths of him. The beauty of the gesture is found in sobriety and confidence in a cinema that does not need to be announced to exist until the last of its consequences. – Miquel Escudero Diéguez