Francisco Melim

"TRAFARIA — Carminda Calado sees the waves of the Tagus river, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean, through her living room window. She has lived a few meters from the beach in the Segundo Torrão neighborhood of Trafaria, near Lisbon, since the 1970s. Accustomed to the coming and going of the sea, Calad never imagined that her life would one day be endangered by its fury. But in 2002, she was swept away by waves that reached her backyard and was only saved by when she hit a tree..." Maíra Streit