A 110 min. creative documentary chosen for the 60th Venice Biennale on the past and present of a corner of the world, a work dealing with images sunk between memory and reality.
The story of a housewife who, in order not to go mad, commits her pain to four notebooks. It is also the story of her slow but lucid and life-affirming liberation from a marriage that was suffocating her freedom.
‘Maquilas’ on the border factories in the north of Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, where hundreds of women have been found hacked to pieces, for the most part workers in the ‘maquilas’. It is a lengthy journey into the inferno