"Do you think plants could have souls? That we might even be able to talk to them?"
For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.
Violeta Castillo
Florencia
Ingrid Isensee
Mother
Mauro Vaca
Sebastian
Ernesto Meléndez
Juan Cano
Simone Mercado
Marcela de la Carrera
Gabriela Arancibia
Catalina Vera
For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.
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A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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