Ana balances her job as a museum gallery guard with caring for Son, her eight-year-old daughter. Long separated, her routine is disrupted at the start of the school year when Son begins exploring her identity. Feeling disoriented, Ana starts to see things differently and will gradually have to reconnect with the woman she was before becoming a mother. To be able to support her daughter, Ana will have to become Ana again.
Director Marta Nieto creates a portrait of a woman haunted by several issues, with child transsexuality in the background. Through the conflict of the social environment changing the generalised and reductive binary view of her child, she herself must begin to see the world ,and above all her own life , in a new light and not only as an exclusively devoted parent. As a result, we are faced with a double transition, as one will push the other: from the son and the mother – who has pushed aside her dreams, pleasures and ambitions, hidden behind her mission as a carer , towards her deepest and freest self.
Followed by a Q& A with director Marta Nieto.
