A mother-in-law from hell, a stepson from heaven — guess which one she falls for?
Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her.
Acting
Mecha Ortiz carries every frame with wounded dignity.
Direction
Mottura frames domestic claustrophobia like a pressure cooker.
Director
Luis Mottura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Argentina's golden age of melodrama, when female-led suffering was basically its own genre.
Mecha Ortiz was so typecast as tragic heroines that critics called her 'the queen of tears.'
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