Parrilla

A journalist cooks the news of the day

Expectante is a fiction that emulates some apparently dangerous situations evoking the constant paranoia of an insecurity city's people.

In an abandoned city after a zombie epidemic, José walks the streets looking for supplies in houses, stores and taps to survive. He lives with the freedom that he did not have before the infectious outbreak. At the same time, Matías and Andrea arrive in the same city and are gathering supplies to meet his mother again and go to a safe area. Then they meet.

A forensic doctor works in the morgue; his only social interaction is with the corpses that arrive daily. One day, the corpses stop arriving, and the forensic doctor's wait begins.

Collage of images from various news programs of the time and YouTube videos from the two terms (1985-1990 and 2006-2011) of the former president of Peru, Alan García, in transition with his famous and ridiculous dances.

Through sequence shots, the life of Juliana Alegría is portrayed, a woman of approximately 50 years of age who on weekdays works in her neighborhood selling drinks and sandwiches from a cart in the mornings and evenings, and on weekends travels to the province of Huacho where she visits places and spends time with her partner.

A woman is seen traveling to Cuzo, walking along the roads, the landscapes, the architecture, merging and getting lost among all of it.

A coroner who works in a morgue loses his daily routine when no body arrives at the hospital, after that he is seen in his work week waiting for the arrival of a corpse.