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Anna Wallace, a young opera singer, faces the remnants of a deep family trauma that permeates her present and conditions her way of inhabiting the world. The initial extreme close-up acts as a threshold: thoughts, memories, and ghosts are superimposed atop Anna's face, emerging without any type of hierarchy and allowing the emotions she is going through to surface. Shot on analogue film, Rocío Mesa creates a captivating and playful portrait without taking away from the dramatic weight of Anna's own process. A film full of visual and sound games to try to explain the singer’s universe. A harsh and radical confession about the burden of family legacies, in which the filmmaker and the protagonist find in performativity a catalyst for healing.

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