Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.
Tabu is a 2012 Portuguese drama film co-written and directed by Miguel Gomes. It stars Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira and Carloto Cotta. The first part of Tabu's plot depicts a socially conscious woman and the final days of her neighbour, an elderly woman named Aurora. The second is a flashback to a year in Aurora's life in 1960s Portuguese Africa. The film's title references F. W. Murnau's 1931 silent film.