When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company’s approval for the care that can help him.
Acting
Jana Raluy's simmering, wordless desperation carries every frame.
Direction
Plá's real-time pressure cooker — 74 minutes, no escape.
Writing
The script weaponizes mundane dialogue into horror.
Director
Rodrigo Plá
Veronica Falcón
Lorena Morgan
Sebastián Aguirre
Dario Castrejón Bonet
Emilio Echevarría
Enrique Sandoval Núñez
Hugo Albores
Dr. Villalba
Úrsula Pruneda
Monica
Noé Hernández
Doorman
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Nicolas Pietro
Marisol Centeno
Lorena Morgan's Assistant
Francisco Barreiro
Baez
Harold Torres
Police Agent 1
Antonio Alcantara
Office Clerk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Plá based this on real Mexican healthcare horror stories, where IMSS bureaucracy literally kills. The 'thousand heads' title references a 16th-century political critique about hydra-like corruption.
The gun Sonia carries was a last-minute script change — originally she had only documents. This weaponizes the audience: we want her to use it, then feel complicit for wanting it.
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