
A teenage girl steps over the line into adulthood during a summer abroad in this drama from writer & director Heitor Dhalia Mathias (Vincent Cassel) is a successful French novelist who packs up his family including wife Clarice (Debora Bloch) & fourteen-year-old daughter Filipa (Laura Neiva) for a few months of vacation at a beachfront house in Brazil While their surroundings are idyllic not everyone is happy & Filipa is aware of the obvious tension between her bickering parents The contentious relationship between Mathias & Clarice explodes when she learns that he's been unfaithful with the younger & sexier Angela (Camilla Belle) Filipa who is all too aware of her growing attraction to the opposite sex is at once disturbed & excited when she spies Mathias & Angela making love & she decides to act on her desires for a handsome neighbour in his early twenties