Dear Chantal,

Film essay on the representation of violence in Mexican cinema.

A young actress joins her estranged brother and new boyfriend, also an actor, at her parents’ rustic home in a Mexican mining town. There, the couple deals with culture shock and familial rivalries.

After two years with his adoptive parents in Fort Lauderdale, Matías, an indigenous Mexican child, develops a strange disease and is sent back to his hometown.