10 minutes that'll wreck your excuses about 'having no time.'
AGUSTINA (30) reflects on the value of the time of those who hold a household together through care work and informal labor. Her journey leads her into the stories of ROSANA (62), who is unable to retire, and ZULMA (60), who was forced into debt to achieve it.
Direction
Lazarte turns personal essay into collective testimony.
Writing
Every word lands like a debt collector at the door.
Director
Agustina Lazarte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Argentina's pension crisis disproportionately affects women who spent decades in unpaid care work, making this a specifically Latin American feminist economic text.
The title's double meaning — 'those who sustain' and 'those who hold up' — captures how care work literally props up economies while being erased from them.
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