For sensitive teen Miriam, life really shouldn’t be much more than sunny afternoons spent with best friend Jennifer, talking about boys and making preparations for their upcoming shared quinceañera. The product of a short, troubled mixed-race marriage, the shy teen is often made to feel like an outcast within her own working-class Dominican family for being darker than the rest, leading her to find comfort in an online relationship with sympathetic suitor, and potential quinceañera date, Jean-Louis. Yet when Jean-Louis reveals himself to be black, Miriam feels the weight of a badly broken society bear down on her young shoulders, driving her to create a web of tall tales, excuses, and deepening coverups in this powerful feature debut from co-writers/directors Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, the latest in an exciting new wave of cinema from the Dominican Republic.

In competition for the CV Cine Award.