Pele

Lisbon, 1972. Olga is a young woman with an easy life, being part of a bourgeois rich family. She attends university and society parties, plays tennis and spends afternoons in the swimming pool with her friends. She knows she’s different, her skin is not white, her body moves at a rhythm too intense. Olga faces the signs of that disquieting reality but prefers to ignore them. When her father returns from Angola after 20 years abroad, her fantastic world falls apart. Never having known her mother is like a wound that does not heal. Olga doesn’t know who she is or where she came from so she begins a search for her own identity and freedom. Olga gets involved with other people, other ways of living and with the theater. As an actress she realizes that the struggle of emotions and memories is made through the skin.