Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.
Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed…. Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Misogyny
- Poverty themes
- Racism, specifically Nazis, mentioned
- Prejudice against Indigenous peoples mentioned
- Attempted suicide mentioned
- Suicidal ideations
- Alcohol consumption
- Substance abuse
- Blood depiction
- Cancer discussed
- Grief depiction
- Fire
- Murder
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