7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.
Acting
Sebastián Molinaro's eyes carry the whole film — no precociousness, just real fear.
Direction
Lerman never lets the camera exhale, matching Matías's perpetual vigilance.
Director
Diego Lerman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in real Buenos Aires women's shelters with non-professional extras, grounding the fiction in documentary urgency.
The 48-hour shelter window is legally real in Argentina — Laura's rushed decision mirrors countless actual impossible choices.
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