My Father’s Burial

Or The Day My Life Seemed To Have Turned Into A Soap Opera

My mother was a very modern young woman in the late sixties. She was born with the desire to be a mother, but without the desire to marry. When she was just over thirty, she started dating my father. The courtship went well until she found out that she wasn’t his only girlfriend. It was there that she decided to have a child with him, but without him knowing it.

Cut to 2002, a time when I was on the air with my first miniseries, “A Casa das Sete Mulheres” (“Seven Women,” in…