Arquivo

Elisa lives with her mother in a housing complex suspended in time, where large-scale fumigations are routine. Pets have disappeared and the population is mostly elderly. The most promising young people are sent to the North, a promised land where “history is being rewritten without mistakes”. Elisa, the last young person in her community, is selected to go. Her mother, a devoted believer in the North, works double shifts to win a coveted travel auction. Elisa’s older sister was sent there before, and now their mother dreams of reuniting the three of them. The arrival of Leonor, an enigmatic nurse with a prosthetic leg, disrupts the routine: Elisa discovers that her youth is a highly desired commodity. As the adaptation process advances, her sister’s cold messages and the North’s obsession with perfection and productivity plant seeds of doubt. Elisa refuses to become just another piece of the new order, even if her resistance makes her the most coveted of all.

Winner of the Viewpoints Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.