Mario Piazza

Short documentary film about an educational experience that took place in a neighborhood of Rosario.

During the dark years of the last dictatorship in Argentina, at the end of 1979, in the city of Rosario,an experimental art group called Cucaño, made of very young adults, emerged. They felt the need to express their discontent against the dangerous and deadly environment while at the same time they were searching for their own identity in their adolescence. They created a notable collective work,fleeting but substantial, which was the most thorough response that a young person could give or give to themselves in those times of extreme repression against self expressions.

Monica contracted polio at age seven, during one of the national epidemics in 1957. Although the disease confined her to a wheelchair, with great difficulty moving her four limbs, Monica has worked as a private English teacher and, more importantly, has been the mother of a daughter who is now 15. After the birth of her daughter, Monica felt the need and the impulse to make a documentary about her "colleagues," mothers in similar situations, a task she undertook with the help of her documentary filmmaker husband.