Terceiro Andar

“The building is a network of regular, always alike sounds, like a beating” (Italo Calvino).

Fátima and Aissato are the mother and the firstborn of a great Guinean family. The narratives and the different languages, acquired in several vital stagings, were determining their feelings. By transmitting and translating the sensitive intersection of different universes, mother and daughter talk about the idea of love and the construction of happiness. Fátima arrived in Lisbon 18 years ago from Contubuel, a small village near Bissau, after getting married with the President of the Guinean Muslim Association in Lisbon. Now, she has six children. Aissato is now 18, she is going to finish secondary school and plans to study Islamic law in England. At 7 PM, from the third to the fifth floor, the sound of pepper and cassava resounds all over the building.