José Carlos García

Nina rejects her boyfriend, who wants to dance with her in a decadent nightclub. They argue and struggle in a small red room in the club, and the night turns into an unexpected mockery of a society that rolls its eyes at Nina when she asks for help.

On a bus trip, a girl has to deal with an aggressive and irrational atmosphere. Without any logical explanation, all the passengers start staring at her.

“Identidad” is an introspective journey about what it means to be born in Peru in the early 1980s, when the worst economic, social and political crisis in its history began. This trip results in a look, perhaps hopeful, about a recent moment of social change and transformation whose essence was reflected in what happened around the return of the Peruvian Selection to the World Cup after 36 years of failures.

A group of acting students moves into the home of one of its members, Julieta, to rehearse their final workshop play. Once there, all the group members systematically experience strange feelings of fear and anxiety due to a shared vision: that of a woman committing suicide in the kitchen. Little by little, the mystery unfolds, but none of them are the same after that stay.

Isabel, a middle-class woman in her early twenties from Lima, and Julia, the family's longtime maid, have plotted to poison Isabel's father, whom she blames for her mother's death twenty years earlier. During breakfast, as they finalize the details of the murder, Morella begins to reveal more of the family's secrets, as she still has a score to settle with Julia.

It tells the story of Alice, who is sexually assaulted by a man. Judas, Alice's boyfriend, always dressed as a clown, forcibly executes the perpetrator, while images of his former girlfriend, Lucy, who left him for another girl, haunt his mind. Alice commits suicide, and Judas is left adrift in a limbo, haunted only by the images of both girlfriends, in a final scene rich in atmosphere and emotion.

Three wayward youths decide one day to hijack a garbage truck and steal it, intending to fill it with the people they consider "trash" of Lima society: politicians, idlers, tabloid journalists, celebrities, men, women, the elderly, metalheads, the mentally ill, drug addicts, and just about everyone. The ordeal ends when, by chance, they actually kill someone. The adrenaline of the night reaches a standstill as the youths head home, but not before carrying out one last heist against the abusive father of one of their girlfriends.