Using digital video and a skeleton crew, Ripstein boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices. The film focuses on Julia (Arcelia Ramirez), a lovelorn and embittered homeopathic doctor, who learns that her husband, a failed boxer, has dumped her in favor of the younger Raquel (Francesca Guillen), daughter of local slumlord La Marrana ('Swine'). To make matters worse, her husband wants to take the kids, while at the same time La Marrana evicts Julia from her modest abode. Julia's growing thirst for vengeance is furthered by her godmother who believes that all men should be castrated.
Presented by Filmoteca in collaboration with the Mexican Embassy and IMCINE (Mexican Film Institute).
