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A man copes with loneliness after his wife's death by reading a thriller and imagining his neighbors' secrets.
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Ada and Otto have spent their entire lives in a bucolic town in the interior, where everyone knows each other. The quiet routine of the couple and their neighbors takes on a mystery with the sudden disappearance of the postman. Trying to overcome his insomnia with the lettuce tea prepared by Ada, Otto spends the nights between peeking out the window and reading an intriguing thriller.
""Delicate and sensitive movie, 'Noites de Alface' has an apparently simple premise: to tell the story of Otto (Everaldo Pontes), an elderly man who needs to learn how to cope with loneliness after his wife Ada's (Marieta Severo) death. However, in the silence of his yellow-painted house, he starts to fantasize about what lies beyond the window - like a kind of 'Rear Window' or 'The Woman in the Window' - mixing reality and fiction he reads in the pages of a suspense book. Despite losing focus with the amount of supporting characters, usually neighbors in this plot that transits between truth and imagination, 'Noites de Alface' draws attention for echoing something powerful: the need for fiction in our lives, giving an extra flavor to our existence."