
Tabu(2012)
Aurora had a farm in Africa, at the foot of Mount Tabu…
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.






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