Mists

Mists Brumas is a 2003 Portuguese independent featurelength film by Ricardo Costa, a docufiction. Nonlinear narrative, conceived as an autobiography, it is a voyage to childhood.

Back to his birthplace Peniche, a Portuguese fishermen town more than fifty years after he saw Maria Jos, who used to be a maid at his parents house, when he was a child, the hero the film director meets her again in the summer of 2011. She is now a mother, grandmother and a great grandmother, with the sea embedded in her soul.Reflecting what the heros eyes observe, the camera follows those steps, moves backwards, and then it lurches forward, suggesting a disquieting outcome of situations of these days, like those of the September 11. The boys who live around her tell the same story in a different way. To make that possible, all it takes is a flickknife, a handsaw, a broom stick, bamboo canes, floaters from the sardine nets, a few magic tricks. ........

Source: Wikipedia