Derly Diaz

Upon a small property in a Colombian field, a woman's ambitions against a defenceless girl result in the woman's death. As tradition, the funeral is carried out in the small house. The girl lives alone, and is accompanied only by few nearby neighbours. With great fear for the dead one, without light and without any communication, the night arrives, and at the same time the solitude. The girl suspects that the woman's bad intentions have not yet passed on...

A young peasant woman moves to Bogotá in search of work and ends up as a domestic servant for a middle-class family, where she witnesses the breakdown of a conflict-ridden marriage. At the same time, she faces the aftermath of rural violence while trying to adapt to life in the big city.