Franco Mellucci

7 year old Matías returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.

A young girl activates an invention bequeathed to her father, transforming the animals that accompanied him during his grief into human beings. While attempting to repair the machine, she introduces them as The MacAnimals: a family with atypical and hilarious customs.