p 　　 quot Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another quot , narrates the voiceover quot All the animals danced together and were immeasurably happy There was only one who wasn 三九 t invited to the celebration - the frog In his rage about the injustice, he committed suicide quot Something Romani and frogs have in common is that they will never be unseen, or stay unnoticed In her film, young director Leonor Teles weaves the life circumstance of Romani in Portugal today with the recollections of a yesterday Anything but a passive observer, Teles consciously decides to participate and take up position As a third pillar, she establishes an active applied performance art that becomes integrated in the cinematic narrative Thereby transforming quot once upon a time quot into quot there is quot quot Afterwards, nothing will be as it was and the melody of life will have changed quot , explains a voice off-camera p