Francisco Salvador Zuleta

In this ruminative snapshot, a swimmer with a clogged ear finds herself drawn back to the sea.

In the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls of her age. As the moon seems to eclipse the animals and people around her, she meets REN__, an online friend, who introduces her to “shifting” – a practice where teens believe they can enter other realities through lucid dreaming.

A fiction that imagines anxiety as literal explosions of light, surging out of one's body. Tonight's anxiety, this girl's, is linked to her interrupted pregnancy.