SYNOPSIS

Cristina is a precarious worker in a textile factory where she does long hours to provide for her younger sister and nephew, with whom she lives and to whom she is the sole caregiver. She always puts her family before her own well-being and carries the weight of the world on her back like some kind of martyr, never giving a sign of breaking. But when in an unhappy turn of events things spiral out of control, she needs to question the meaning of her actions. Can you look after your loved ones without looking after yourself first?

INTENTION

I have been a caretaker since my teenage years, and I know how the responsibility and the pressure of having to take care of someone feels like. That deep sense of love and retribution that is sometimes mixed with a certain kind of obligation imposed by blood ties can lead one to forget their own well-being in order to focus exclusively on others’. 

Such is Cristina, a hardworking woman whose every action is oriented to provide for her dysfunctional sister, who is unable to take care of herself and her baby son. It is in this context that she has no choice but to denounce a colleague she catches stealing at the factory where she works at. Because if she does not, she will lose her job – and that would jeopardize her family’s well-being, which in her scale of values would be much worse than sabotaging her whole relationship with her colleagues.

Rambling through the cold winter in the outskirts of an industrial town – using long takes and blurred colours –, Cristina’s journey of sacrifice will lead us to question the limits of human generosity.