The Díaz are an influential family who control much of the poultry industry in the island. Arcadio is the family patriarch, an authoritative and conservative man who rules over his family's destiny as he does over the chickens on his farm. Teresa, his eldest, left home during her college years to become an astrophysicist against her father's wishes. Now, after a 7-year absence, she returns home for a few weeks in order to reveal a secret long kept from her family and to invite them to her wedding with Daniela. But, once back, her intentions turn to dust when she finds herself trapped in the family's old habit of lying. No one in the family is as they seem, nor are they willing to unveil their true selves. Within this world of half-truths, Teresa encounters Andrés, her nephew, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who shares her passion for the stars.
Acting
Sunshine Logroño's patriarch simmers with terrifying poultry-magnate authority.
Writing
The lies stack like Jenga—everyone's performance of normalcy is the real horror.
Director
Carla Cavina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Puerto Rico's poultry industry genuinely concentrates wealth in a few families, making the Díaz dynasty uncomfortably documentary-adjacent. Director Carla Cavina uses this to examine how island economic power replicates colonial family structures.
Andrés' Asperger's isn't framed as tragedy but as the film's moral compass—he alone cannot perform the family's required deception. His star maps are literally constellations of truth in a house built on lies.
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