To Die Like a Man

“You were already here before entering, and you will remain after you have left”

Tonia (Fernando Santos), a transgender woman who performs in a Lisbon drag revue, is trying to pull her younger boyfriend Rosário (Alexander David) out of his drug addiction. Her son, a soldier gone AWOL, keeps turning up with problems of his own. João Pedro Rodrigues runs the film on one question, how much of herself she is willing to change for the people she loves.