What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are reluctant to leave their home and who defend their last drops of water at gunpoint.
Acting
Aura and Becerril's weathered, wordless intimacy.
Direction
Ordoñez wrings maximum dread from minimal resources.
Director
Rodrigo Ordoñez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during actual Mexico City water crises, the film predicted 2024's Cutzamala system collapse. Art imitated life before life caught up.
Marta Aura and Fernando Becerril were real-life partners; their actual decades together inform every loaded silence. The gun training? Becerril's idea.
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