‘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
The story of the painful initiation of an adolescent into the world of adults in the outskirts of Rome.
“The longed-for upside-down world which haunts the girl’s premature disenchantment is woven through the narrative in a clear and coherent web of symbols" (J.Young - 'Pardo News' Locarno Film Festival)