On the back staircases of a residential building, girls smoke hidden from their parents. They take off their clothes to prevent being denounced by the smell of smoke. Cora is 30 years old. She lives in the same building as the girls, and is stuck in an unhappy marriage. The woman catches the girls smoking. From then on…

Concha is a dancer in a cabaret for sailors and she has a “man”. When this man gets a good thrashing she finds herself unprotected and decides to go off with a barge captain she met a few days earlier. Her arrival will stir up the peaceful…

Great movie! I believe some of the artwork for this film - if not all - was commissioned to Carlos Zamora. Zamora is a local Peruvian artist who's recent work has gotten excellent reviews. Peruvian films are well noted for containing a social and moral complexity in the dynamics of the subjects, which results in a stor…