Tells the story of a Portuguese woman navigating the ghetto of Toronto. She trudges through ill- gotten neighborhoods with a knowledge that they are her own and carries a strong will through welfare, drug trafficking, lost lovers and all forms of physical and sexual abuse. She becomes as hardened as the ones who have wronged her; unable to clean the wounds she bore at such a tender age. She is unable to understand why the world has taken everything away from her including the one person who loved her: Her Vuvo (Grandmother). Slowly, she finds love incrementally through the birth and rearing of her son Keeno and is saved by God in the eyes of the Church.