Summer love curdles into something toxic—this 21-minute gut punch doesn't blink.
Isabel (17) spends the last days of summer camping with her sister Camila (27) and brother-in-law Miguel (29). A few days before the trip ends, Isabel finds refuge in the love she discovers in Victoria (18). What seems like a love story is shaken after a night in which Miguel abuses Isabel. The safe space is no longer safe. Isabel must deal with her own questions, guilt, and internal pressures, deciding to destroy herself so as not to destroy her sister.
Acting
Ignacia Uribe's silent devastation—every micro-expression is a wound.
Cinematography
Golden hour paradise rotting from within; the lake becomes a trap.
Direction
Téllez Gross holds the abuse in frame longer than comfort allows.
Director
Fernanda Téllez Gross
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Chilean shorts confronting family-archived sexual violence, following the country's 2019 social uprising and renewed feminist reckonings.
The 21-minute runtime mirrors a single summer day—Téllez Gross edited out two hours of footage to trap viewers in Isabel's compressed psychological timeline.
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