In the debut film of director João Pedro Rodrigues (The Ornithologist, Will-o'-the-Wisp), a trash collector (Ricardo Meneses) obsesses over a motorcyclist (Andre Barbosa) and embarks on a series of homosexual encounters. O Fantasma was praised by L.A. Times as an "audacious and compelling, dark and erotic cautionary tale about a marginalized young man, a trash collector living and working in the seedy north of Lisbon, exploring his sexuality... O Fantasma is boldly, confidently orchestrated, aesthetically and sexually, and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing."