Joaquin Lara, a successful businessman, is going through the best moment of his life; however, while dining at a prestigious restaurant in the city, he runs into his ex-girlfriend Nina Nadal, who will soon leave the country to start a new life abroad. The encounter is peaceful until Joaquin receives a series of mysterious text messages, demanding that he publish some evidence at that location and thus expose some dark secrets of certain people present there as well. Otherwise, he is warned that the woman accompanying him "Nina" will be killed once she leaves the restaurant if he does not fulfill the objective. Thus begins a sordid game in a confined public place where everyone's life is at risk.
Acting
María Fernanda Yepes radiates terror while pretending everything's fine.
Direction
Yesid Leone turns fine dining into a pressure cooker of dread.
Director
Yesid Leone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Colombian cinema has increasingly used confined thrillers to examine class stratification; this joins a tradition of 'prestige setting, primal behavior' storytelling.
Yesid Leone shot the restaurant scenes in chronological order to heighten cast exhaustion and paranoia—by the finale, the actors genuinely hadn't slept.
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