Public Bodies

A group of women and men who suffered sexual abuse during their childhood tell their stories of struggle in first-person voices. In times of movements like #MeToo, their voices are presented as tools both to raise awareness of the issue and to support others.

Filmed in a single sequence, we see Lorena, a young employee at a gas station on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. One night, she reacts violently toward a customer, to the incomprehension of the others. What happened?

Carolina is the mother of a teenage girl who arrives to one of the public hospitals in the outskirts of Buenos Aires suffering the consequences of a clandestine abortion. Trying to get to her daughter, she will go thought the whole hospital and this walk be filled with indifference, a sordic wait, and loneliness.