Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez

A young couple lost their baby by apparent sudden death

In a small mountain house, under the law of the Christian Holy Family, a mother and her two children live in confinement forced by her husband, but after a failed suicide attempt, the mother is forced to include her children in a new plan to escape.

After years studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family. She finds her younger sister living alone in the family home, growing increasingly distant and reclusive, as if slipping into a world of her own. Their parents, meanwhile, are absorbed in their own lives. Her father drifts through a series of affairs, while her mother is immersed in republishing the erotic poems of her youth, neither fully grasping the urgency of the situation. Elsa’s return draws the three women into a confrontation with what still binds them, despite everything.

Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.

Sixteen-year-old Lucia wants to get rid of two things more than anything: her lice & her virginity.