For precocious and bright-eyed Salomé (Lua Michel), her grandmother, Avo (Ester Catalao), is magic. In Alma Viva, the French-born young girl spends her summers under the muggy heat of her family’s Portuguese village, where she tends to her beloved Avo, who is known in town as the village sorceress. Though her aunt and uncle buzz around them in the background, Avo is the center of Salomé’s world. She tends to her grandmother, brushing her hair, bringing her fish, and praying at her side as she calls on spirits and communicates with the dead.
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