Fausta

Storyline

Freely inspired by the age-old legend of Dr. Faust

Fausta, a 70-year-old university rector in Rio de Janeiro, undergoes a crisis as she struggles to come to terms with aging. Carmen, a geneticist from Catalonia, promises her rejuvenation. Fausta signs a pact and undergoes an operation that transforms her into a young black woman. Presumed dead and now under the name Gretchen, she travels, marries a Portuguese police officer. However, when her daughter gives her a grandson, despite the death pact she signed, she and her husband pretend to be a gay couple so she can return to Brazil and be close to her daughter, disguised as a servant.