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Paloma herida
MEXICO · 1963

Paloma herida

Emilio “Indio” Fernández
indigenous identity revenge silence and trauma justice system motherhood and redemption
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Synopsis

Paloma is a young blonde indigenous woman who arrives in a coastal town and goes to the local cantina to murder Danilo Zeta in cold blood. But the young woman is captured and, upon being tried in the public square of Puerto San José, she refuses to speak. In prison, after giving birth to a child, Judge Justo and her wife Amalia encourage her to tell them her past.

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