Luzinete

2021, 10 minutes

The film touches the solitude and despair of a young single mother who succumbed to the vices of a shallow and illusional world. Making it is a way of honouring and acknowledging the life of Nete as well as the many other lives cut short by drugs.

At the turning of the century, single mother Luzinete, a cocaine addict and dealer in Salvador – Brazil, finds out she is also HIV positive. Through a keyhole, we are then invited to enter her world and more precisely to follow her last living hours, filled with substance abuse, solitude and deceit. The story glimpses at the unbroken bond between Nete, and her sister Cee and the love she shares with her only son Raphael. Sent to prison a couple of times, Nete's world is colourful but equally deceiving, slippery and dangerous. Despite her constant attempts to better herself, her friendship choices were not the wisest.

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