Cecilia García

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

It's Friday morning at Panamerican Machinery Inc., a company specialising in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events shakes their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse.

"Delirio" tells the story of Masha, an 11-year-old girl. Who suddenly moves along with her mother Elisa, to the house of her grandmother Dinia, who is beginning to lose her memory. The coexistence between these three women triggers a delusion around the presence of a man inside the house that nobody sees.

Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.