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Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon becomes his worst nightmare. Pedro needs to escape; but Alicia won’t let him...
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When Pedro agrees to watch over his ex-girlfriend's elderly, seemingly confused mother Alicia, he expects a minor inconvenience at worst. What unfolds is something far more sinister — a battle of wills between a man desperate to leave and a woman who refuses to let him go. Anchored by a fearless lead performance from Carmen Maura, the film blurs the line between frailty and menace in deeply unsettling ways. Equal parts dark comedy and nerve-shredding thriller, it turns the mundane setting of domestic caregiving into a pressure-cooker nightmare.
Content: Psychological Manipulation, Threat And Intimidation, Potentially Disturbing Depictions Of Mental Decline
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