Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip club to make ends meet. Setting audiences afire with her erotic moves, Amaryllis quickly becomes the strip club's hottest attraction, but must finally decide between true love and realizing her dream of becoming a star.
Acting
Roselyn Sánchez commits fully to every pirouette and pole grind.
Score
Reggaeton and classical mashups that somehow work.
Director
Alfredo De Villa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the Nuyorican cinema wave, it reflects early 2000s tensions between island identity and diaspora dreams in NYC.
Bill Duke's character Miles exists solely to deliver the film's thesis: 'Everybody's selling something.' The movie agrees but still judges Amaryllis for it.
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