Breathing Water

Emma Yesica Duvali, a 61-year-old trans woman, returns to the stage and recalls the transcendental moments that marked her life: her childhood, her first jobs, the police violence she faced during the times of Negro Durazo and how she became a vedette. A journey through time through Yesica's memory and the nightlife of theaters and cabarets in Mexico in the eighties.

Daniela starts dressing as a man to get into nightclubs with her best friend, using an ID that isn’t hers, a disguise that soon leads her to question her own gender.