Agnus Dei, Lamb of God

Placeada is the story of a 43-year-old former hit woman who was in the service of drug traffickers. After 20 years in prison she is released, trying to find a new way to make sense of her life. She doesn't want to go back to prison nor die, she is trying to accommodate a past of which she is still a prisoner. This is an intimate testimony where he explores the possible origins and causes of a violence that has a whole country on edge.

Luisa works in a gay bar and her work is her life. However, the meeting with her eight years old niece will confront her with an unexpected maternity. This event will compel her to face her sexual identity outside of the gay ghettos.

Bordering in concentric circles around the phenomenon of the murders committed against women in Juárez, Chihuahua, this documentary centers on a mother who loses her daughter and a maquiladora worker recently arrived from Veracruz who comes to represent Juarez´s living women. Two journalists specializing in the case explain what is behind the rash of killings. Violence against women is lived and interpreted in different ways.