Disobedience
Director Licínio Azevedo
Countries
Duration 90 min
Synopsis
Rosa, a Mozambican peasant woman, is accused of causing her husbands’ suicide and being possessed by a “husband-spirit” that made her disobey to her true husband. In the funeral, a letter is found and read in front of everyone: the suicidal determines that the five children he had with Rosa must be delivered to his twin brother and not allowed to live with the woman who ruined his life. To prove her innocence, she recovers her children and the few possessions the couple had, submitting herself to two trials: first a healer, then a court of justice. She’s found innocent in both, yet in order to keep a family’s secret hidden, she must be found guilty. The dead relatives then take revenge on her in an excruciating way.
Rosa, a Mozambican peasant woman, is accused of causing her husbands’ suicide and being possessed by a “husband-spirit” that made her disobey to her true husband. In the funeral, a letter is found and read in front of everyone: the suicidal determines that the five children he had with Rosa must be delivered to his twin brother and not allowed to live with the woman who ruined his life. To prove her innocence, she recovers her children and the few possessions the couple had, submitting herself to two trials: first a healer, then a court of justice. She’s found innocent in both, yet in order to keep a family’s secret hidden, she must be found guilty. The dead relatives then take revenge on her in an excruciating way.