Francisco Zaldua

Bright and beautiful, seventeen-year-old Adelaida (Laura Osma) lives with her parents Lena (Maruia Shelton), an event planner, and Francisco (Francisco Zaldua), a sculptor and art teacher. Together, the trio enjoy a comfortable domestic life in Bogotá—until the cracks begin to show through the veneer of this picture-perfect family. With most of the housekeeping and parenting duties falling on her, the already stressed Lena struggles to fulfill the demanding role of working mother. Meanwhile, at the peak of her teen angst, Adelaida is facing her own identity crisis. When tragedy strikes, the shaken​ family must confront their biggest struggle yet.

This rich, complex portrait of the immigrant experience follows Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald), a Colombian environmental lawyer who is forced to flee her native country when her husband is murdered. With the help of a young couple (Deragh Campbell and Kazik Radwanski), she surreptitiously crosses into Canada from the U.S. inside the trunk of a car, and is forced to start her life from scratch as a refugee. Six years later, while leading a seemingly normal life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter Lucía (Natalia Aranguren), Aurora is confronted with her past in the form of her estranged cousin Edgar (Francisco Zaldua), who was a suspect in her husband’s murder, and whose appearance threatens to destroy everything she’s built.