Jénifer, or a french princess

the (truly) unknown islands

Neto, Joel

Jenifer is a child searching for a way out, and Joel is a man looking for a story. The two meet in a public housing project in the Azores, Portugal’s poorest region, a breeding ground for alcoholism and domestic violence, sexual abuse and incest, drug trafficking, school failure, and social exclusion, among many other signs of human underdevelopment. A question floats in the background: how can Jenifer transcend her parents’ gloomy condition? She has a plan.