S15.E13 ∙ Episode #15.13

How do you live your life when knowing that your world will be quiet and dark one day? The main character in the documentary 'The small world of Machteld Cossee ' knows she can not escape her fate. The documentary shows the touching moments, but also frustration, strife and moments of fear of the future.

Between 1947 and 1949, the writer Maria Lamas traveled the country to publicize the reality in which Portuguese women lived. The result of this tour was the book "As Mulheres do Meu País". More than 70 years later, director Marta Pessoa and writer Susana Moreira Marques seek to understand what this book is and what it can tell us today.

An electronic parts salesman in Toronto with no medical training conceives an idea that could revolutionize medicine. A young woman living in the American South faced with an incurable disease takes him up on it, and the two set out on an international odyssey to realize the possibility of a cure.