From Colombia, not a country that one usually associates with LGBT movies, comes this very touching melodrama about two women who are mourning the recent tragic death of the same man, and who surprise themselves with how things develop when they get together to share their loss.
Andres (Manuel José Chávez) had been estranged from his only sister Lucia (Carolina Guerra) for the past few years since he failed to visit their father when he lay dying in the hospital. Now it is the morning of his wedding to Mariana (Olga Segura) and he decides at the very last minute to do a detour on the way to the church to see if he can actually reconcile with Lucia. Distracted as he drives, he is killed instantly in an accident, and the deeply upset Best Man has to break the news to the wedding party. Whilst in another part of town Lucia hears the news from her husband Adrian (Andrés Aranburo).
The distraught sister and fiancee who have never met before both have the same idea and go to seek refuge in Andres’s empty apartment thinking that they can be alone with their grief . The strangers are at first uncomfortable in each other’s company but are quickly drawn together united by the fact they were the two most important people in Andres’s life. On top of her grief, Lucia is dealing with her guilt for never making an effort to make amends with her brother, and for the fact that she now knows that he had changed his plans to go see her when he was killed.
Whilst is soon becomes clear that Lucia’s own marriage is stuck in a rut and going nowhere, it is also obvious that Mariana is still very much in love with Andres so what eventually develops between these two highly emotional women is unexpected but at the same, totally organic. Excellent hand-wringing performances from the two lead actresses ensure that the tension of the drama is kept up right until the very end.
The impressive debut feature from writer/director Ana Maria Hermida is evidently was evidently based on a tragic accident in her own life, and the movie is dedicated to the memory of her own late brother.
