THE HOUSEWIFE

Nádia has spent her entire life taking care of her home, her husband, and her children. At fifty-one, with failing eyesight and a weakened body, she knows every sound her family makes: the plate taken away before she has finished eating, the door slammed shut, the money disappearing from her account, and the silence that always follows an assault.

To those who follow the family on social media, Ana is the perfect daughter—beautiful, devoted, and tireless in caring for her mother. Behind closed doors, however, the reality is very different. Nádia lives under the control of her own daughter and Sadraque, the husband who has turned decades of marriage into fear, dependence, and humiliation.

When a mysterious man begins treating her like a woman who can still be desired, Nádia believes she has finally found a way out.

In the suffocating heat of Macapá, surrounded by relentless rain and the vastness of the Amazon River, Nádia begins secretly recording everything that happens inside her home. What her family has yet to realize is that the woman they have always mistaken for weak has spent years watching every lie, every threat, and every blind spot.

And a housewife knows exactly where to hide the things no one can ever find.