After the death of her abusive husband, Matilde finds her new best friend in Miguel, her young, insecure, and disoriented neighbor.
Acting
Nora Velázquez carries decades of pain in every silence.
Direction
Contreras lets moments breathe without manipulation.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like eavesdropping on real neighbors.
Director
Ernesto Contreras
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Mexico's Oscar submission, part of a wave of Mexican cinema finally centering women's interior lives beyond melodrama. Contreras specifically wanted to show post-abuse survival as mundane and ongoing, not cinematic triumph.
The title references a conversation about quantum physics that becomes the film's emotional skeleton—two people agreeing that impossible things happen constantly, including their friendship.
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