Hard Labor

An entrepreneurial Brazilian housewife plans to open a small grocery store, but finds her hard work thwarted by a series of bizarre and unexpected complications. Determined to achieve her lifelong dream of launching a small business, Helena (Helena Albergaria) hires a maid to look after her daughter and handle the household chores. But things get complicated when Helena’s husband Otavio (Marat Descartes) is fired from his job at a local insurance agency, suddenly thrusting her into the role as their household’s sole breadwinner. Meanwhile, Helena hires two employees to get the shop up and running, but finds sewage problems, strange blemishes on the wall, and a howling canine making the process more complicated than she could have ever anticipated., A woman plans to open a grocery store, but faces an uphill battle after her husband loses his job and a series of strange problems emerge regarding the store’s location in this simmering horror drama., A woman plans to open a grocery store, but faces an uphill battle after her husband loses his job and problems emerge regarding the store’s location.