One pill, one choice, and a country where help is illegal.
A teen girl with a bright future buys some pills from a woman on a park bench. She has fun with her boyfriend while her parents are out of town. Now she’s pregnant and since abortion is illegal in Chile she takes the black-market pills meant to induce an abortion safely at home. The history of her relationship with her boyfriend slowly unfolds until it becomes an intense life-or-death moment that will forever change everyone involved.
Acting
María de Los Ángeles García's silent desperation is devastating.
Direction
Fuenzalida's cramped framing traps you in Natalia's panic.
Director
Francisca Fuenzalida
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Chile's total abortion ban (1989-2017); the film was illegal to screen at some festivals.
Fuenzalida cast non-professionals from working-class Santiago neighborhoods; García was discovered at a casting call in her high school.
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