When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.
Acting
Cecilia Roth's restraint hits harder than screaming
Direction
Rodríguez lets silence do the screaming
Director
Manane Rodríguez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Uruguay's 1973-1985 dictatorship saw systematic sexual violence against female political prisoners, a history still being excavated.
Roth, an Argentine exile herself, channels lived displacement—her performance is essentially autobiographical geography.
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