Overview
A successful transgender actress decided to adopt a child with her lawyer husband . She juggles her career, marriage, and the adoption in pursuit of domestic happiness, all while trying to embrace her flaws and contradictions and also claim and defend her right to ambition, desire, and security. But that pursuit is eventually thwarted when they visit the actress's hometown.
Director and cast
- Javier van de Couter Director
- Camila Sosa Villada as Actriz
- Alfonso Herrera as Abogado
- Carlos Cano as Hermano
- Romina Escobar as Mariela Muñoz
- Ignacio Ferrechio as Hijo
- Adriana Ferrer as Asistente social
- Susana Varela as Madre
- Sebastián Arzeno as Director obra
- Adela Buendía as Asistente actriz
- Barbie di Rocco as Amiga fuego
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