Directed by Carla Cavina • Drama • With Sunshine Logroño, Marisé Alvarez, Elba Escobar, Prakriti Maduro • 2017 • 110 minutes
Teresa is a vegetarian and a successful astrophysicist who lives with her girlfriend, Daniela, in the Canary Islands. After years of self-exile, Teresa returns to Puerto Rico to invite the family to her wedding. But the Diaz are a conservative clan in a rural town on the island, which earns its capital from the production of chicken en masse. No one in the family is what they appear and none is willing to reveal their most intimate secrets, so once back at home, Teresa chooses to lie. When several acts of sabotage force the closure of the family business and Daniela, tired of waiting for Teresa, travels to Puerto Rico to meet her new family, the Diaz nucleus collapses like a supernova star, unleashing a chain reaction that puts discovered that we are all "extraterrestrials."
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