Top Cast
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Libertad Lamarque
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Carlos López Moctezuma
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José Alfredo Jiménez
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César Costa
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Hilda Aguirre
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Fanny Cano
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Julián Pastor
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Jorge Rivero
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Aarón Hernán
Overview
Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
Rating
Recommendations
17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
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