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Year of production : 2022

Director(s) : Isabel DAVALOS, Victor ARREGUI
Producer(s) : Isabel DAVALOS (cabezahueca producciones)

Filmmaker Víctor Arregui explores the possible origin of the three heart attacks he has suffered, among other ailments he carries on his back, in a traumatic event he experienced in his youth, when he was a leftist political activist in Ecuador in 1987. As if they were two currents that converge in the same narrative thread, the documentary approach of Isabel Dávalos, who invites him to speak, first in front of the camera and then in front of his militant friends and his children, is linked to the view of Victor himself, who stages, in an exercise of catharsis, the episode that marked him. He discovers that in his prior films he has written and filmed there are also traces of his silence. The authoritarianism embodied in male bodies that obey the social mandate of virility, with all the taboos it entails, is just one of the themes that this brave, precise and heartbreaking film brings to the stage.