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For this production, the actresses held a kind of "internship" in Vinhais, where they spent a few months living with the local population and learning their trades and ways of life to create their characters. Also the pilgrimage that is portrayed in the film is real. The actresses completed, like any pilgrim, the journey on foot from Trás-os-Montes to the sanctuary, in different stages: the first in 2014, in preparation and with other groups of pilgrims, then in 2015, with the actresses already forming a group, and in 2016 for the film.
In this film there is a scene in which several actresses from the cast (Rita Blanco, Anabela Moreira, Vera Barreto, Ana Bustorff, Sara Norte, Alexandra Rosa and Teresa Tavares) appear full frontally nude, in a bathhouse lined with white tiles, taking a bath.
When RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal) showed the film in series format, these same images were censored by the public channel, having been cut. Sara Norte is one of the most exposed in the scene where she's not shy about showing off her shaved vulva. So it is not surprising that it is she who reacted to RTP's attitude: "These images (full nudes) are part of the film, both in the long and in the short version. It's a scene where we take a shower in a fire station after walking for miles. It is a scene from a pilgrim's bath. It's part of the film (...) It's a bit silly: how is it that, in the 21st century, people talk like that about nudity? How is it that the female body is still taboo?"