Ashley Díaz

Maia, a young woman consumed by insecurity, participates in a beauty pageant where every question and every glance awakens her deepest fears. As the competition progresses, the comparisons, the painful memories, and the voices of those around her fracture her self-perception, until her own reflection begins to deteriorate, revealing the distorted image she has always been afraid to confront.

Santo Domingo, the heat, the flame trees and the Sun. An essay-poem.