Reality TV has spent years selling us the idea that love can be found anywhere. From competing for love on an island to getting engaged to someone you just met, we’ve all consumed the message that finding your soulmate is worth almost any sacrifice. So, moving abroad for love is then also framed as a mere drop in the ocean. But what happens when this love asks for more than compromise? Or what if beneath the romance perhaps sits something else?

Sometimes the relationship becomes the bridge to a future you already secretly wanted – reinvention, stability, escape, freedom, a softer life than the one left behind. Other times, it becomes the very thing that traps you there. Elisabete, Mónica and Olímpia know that feeling intimately and now, they’re ready to tell their stories.