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By bringing Dostoievsky?s Crime and Punishment down to our times, set in São Paulo, the film tells the story of Nina, acutely sensitive, of fragile mind, who rents a room in an apartment belonging to Eulália, a stingy old woman who is out to get what she can, the reencarnation of the old miser killed by Raskólnikov in the writer?s Russian book. Eulália humiliates Nina at every turn, breaks into her correspondence, confiscates the money her mother sends her, locks the fridge with a padlock to prevent her access to any food kept there, each labeled "Eulália", as a symbol of the power to purchase and the right to consume. Tension reaches a peak when Eulália decides to put Nina out and introduces her to the new tenant. Desperate, Nina commits a terrible crime, and her interior world disintegrates once and for all.