Embargo (film) explained

Embargo
Director:António Ferreira
Producer:Tathiani Sacilotto
António Ferreira
Starring:Filipe Costa
Cláudia Carvalho
Pedro Diogo
Fernando Taborda
José Raposo
Music:Luís Pedro Madeira
Runtime:83 minutes
Country:Portugal
Language:Portuguese

Embargo is a 2010 film that is an adaptation of a tale included in the 1978 Quasi Object by the Portuguese writer José Saramago.

Plot

Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented the machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed