Odete (2005)

One night, outside a nightclub in Lisbon, two young men, Pedro and Rui, kiss passionately. They have been together for a year. They exchange rings and pledge their love. Pedro drives away, and Rui goes into the nightclub where he works. Minutes later, Pedro is in a terrible car accident. Desperate, Rui rushes to his side. Pedro dies in his arms. Alone, Rui feels lost, without hope or the will to live. But Pedro and Rui’s love is eternal. Odete, a roller skater, works at a hypermarket. She dreams of having a child. She is dating Alberto, a security guard at the hypermarket. When Odete insists on getting pregnant, he runs away. Alberto does not want a commitment. Abandoned, Odete is left alone, shut away in a world of illusions. Her dream of having a child turns into an obsession. When she gets home, Odete sees Pedro’s mother leaving in tears for her son’s wake. Odete barely knew Pedro, an upstairs neighbor, but their fates are about to cross. On a strange impulse, she dresses in black and follows Pedro’s mother to the funeral chapel. Grief over Alberto’s abandonment makes her weep for Pedro’s death. Odete transfers the pain of Alberto’s disappearance onto the dead man’s body and gives herself over to the illusion (Producer’s synopsis).