年青的時候，死亡總是好像很遙遠。初次接觸，往往是從親人的離去開始。在里斯本一個炎熱的夏天，大衛的外公快將離去，害怕面對將要失去親人的現實，大衛拒絕探望他，留下他母親天天在醫院陪伴外公。外公離去後，大衛明白到自己將要成為家中的男子漢，但他還未作好長大的準備，更不想擔當家中的男丁角色。但是，他的青春期卻離他愈來愈遠......備受注目的葡萄牙新星Salaviza前兩部短片，已分別勇奪康城及柏林的金棕櫚獎和金熊獎，處女作散發著其強烈影像及作為演員的魅力，充分表現那份初次面對生離死別的傷痛。當中的茫然與抑壓，滲滿了格與格的空寥，如墜落的星宿，在璀璨中灰飛煙滅。

Fearing to witness the death of his dying grandfather, 14-year-old David refuses to visit him in the hospital, leaving his mother alone with her father every night. It is hard for a teenager to accept that death is not as distant as one might believe. With his grandfather’s death, David realizes that no one is immortal and he will not be young forever, he is afraid to grow up, he refuses to grow up. He wants to find a way to avoid being an adult as well as the man of the house, but the more he tries to escape adulthood, the faster it is happening.