The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão

Euridice is young, beautiful and ambitious, but when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, she sets her own aspirations aside and vows to settle down as a model wife and daughter. And yet as her husband's professional success grows, so does Euridice's feeling of restlessness. She embarks on a series of secret projects from creating recipe books to becoming the most sought-after seamstress in town -- but each is doomed to failure. Her tradition-loving husband is not interested in an independent wife. And then one day Guida appears at the door with her young son and a terrible story of hardship and abandonment.

Set in

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  Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro · Brazil

  middle-class sisters 1940s home
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• Estacio, Rio de Janeiro · Brazil

  working-class Rio neighborhood