Streets of Sorrow
Director Rui Simões
Countries Portugal
Duration 111 min
Synopsis
Ruas da Amargura is a documentary about men and women of all ages in need of affection, dealing with financial or mental problems, alcoholism, drug addiction, or persons who simply arrived in Portugal looking for a better life. In the other side of the Street, there’s a crowd of volunteers, social workers and several technicians that build and keep the structures of social support, some of them hoping for better days to come, others institutionalizing its aid without believing that this phenomenon will ever have a cure. A job so often ungrateful and unsuccessful, mostly because, among other reasons, its lack of coordination.
Ruas da Amargura is a documentary about men and women of all ages in need of affection, dealing with financial or mental problems, alcoholism, drug addiction, or persons who simply arrived in Portugal looking for a better life. In the other side of the Street, there’s a crowd of volunteers, social workers and several technicians that build and keep the structures of social support, some of them hoping for better days to come, others institutionalizing its aid without believing that this phenomenon will ever have a cure. A job so often ungrateful and unsuccessful, mostly because, among other reasons, its lack of coordination.