A woman saving to escape Earth finds the universe has other plans.
Mariana is a systematic girl. She studies English and German at a language school. She works in a call center as many hours as possible and saves everything she earns. To entertain herself a little, she looks for men in bars with whom she only plans to spend one night. Why compromise if she just wants to travel? That is Mariana's plan, to go away and what better than to an island in the Mediterranean. But Gabriel, an unlikely boy who keeps getting into her life with bad jokes and uncomfortable questions, forces her to look at herself and wonder what she wants to run away from.
Acting
Piñeres carries every scene with restrained desperation.
Direction
Santa makes call center fluorescent lighting feel cosmic.
Director
Natalia Santa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Colombian films examining middle-class precarity through genre lenses — think 'Los Conductos' meets relationship drama.
The title's cruel irony: Mariana never reaches Malta, yet the island becomes her psychological horizon — escape as permanent deferral.
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