Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria a young girl from a Brazilian village whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age she becomes convinced that she will never find true love instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex sex in the context of love.
