Your first period hits in a Catholic school bathroom. God is watching. So is everyone else.
Lucía, an adolescent who studies at a Catholic school for girls, is at the stage of her life where all her classmates are changing except her. At an inopportune moment her menstruation arrives, Lucia full of fear and questions is condemned by the people around her who judge her for the changes in her body.
Acting
Mariana Estrada Palacino's silent terror is devastating.
Direction
Eguía frames Catholic spaces as psychological prisons.
Director
Andrea Eguía
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mexican Catholic schoolgirls historically used 'la regla' as communal secret—this film exposes what happens when that secrecy breaks.
Director Eguía based Lucía's bathroom scene on her own 2007 expulsion threat for 'immodesty' during menstruation.
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