Love for Sale

Hermila (Hermila Guedes), who goes by Suely, is a young woman in northern Brazil who comes home and waits for the husband who left her there. When he doesn't return, she decides to raffle off a night with herself, announcing it as "a night in paradise." Karim Aïnouz keeps the camera close to her face and her scars, and lets the heat of the town show in how she moves.