Fado

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A young singer, Luisa, arrives home to her apartment in Surrey, BC, to find her mother, Rosida, collapsed on the floor, weeping, because the greatest fado singer of all time, Amalia Rodrigues, has died. Luisa realizes she doesn't know how to sing a single Portuguese song, because she and her mother moved outside the community after the death of Luisa's dad. Luisa embarks on a multicultural journey back to Lisbon to reclaim her heritage by learning how to sing fado and retrieve her own true song.