A skilled worker has a sudden nervous breakdown at the company for which he has been working for the last 20 years. He attacks the machines and smashes the windows. The company decides to have him undergo treatment with a well-known young psychiatrist. She will try to bring light the reasons for his behavior so he can adapt himself to his work once again.
Acting
Simón Díaz's raw, trembling breakdown scene.
Writing
Dialogue that interrogates who truly needs fixing.
Director
Mauricio Walerstein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Venezuelan cinema exploring mental health through class lens, barely distributed outside Latin America.
The window-smashing scene was reportedly shot in an actual factory with workers watching, blurring reality and fiction.
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