Nine minutes that'll wreck your entire concept of maternal destiny.
Puerto Rico: Young and pregnant, Wilma fears becoming absorbed by motherhood like her sister Luisa, losing both herself and her artistic aspirations. On this morning, her mother, a santera, presents her with a startling premonition: Life has other plans for her, her children and her family.
Direction
Yara Travieso merges theater roots with cinematic dread.
Sound
Sound design that makes premonitions feel physically unavoidable.
Director
Yara Travieso
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Santería's role as both spiritual anchor and inherited burden reflects Puerto Rico's complex relationship with African diasporic traditions under colonialism.
Travieso adapted this from her own theatrical work, explaining the compressed, ritualistic intensity—every frame performs like staged grief.
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