The Handbook 2020
On an island where civilization collapsed, education and learning is paid with death; a young man will have to face a mercenary to preserve the answer to everything.
On an island where civilization collapsed, education and learning is paid with death; a young man will have to face a mercenary to preserve the answer to everything.
Olivia suffers from OCD, a mental condition that manifests itself through a voice in her head that compels her to brush her teeth constantly. During Christmas Eve festivities in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, the voice comes back after being dormant for a year. Not having Health Care, she desperately searches for the pills that will control her OCD without a prescription. Through her friend Jessica, who she met years ago in a mental institution, she meets David, the town’s pharmacist’s son, who agrees to sell her the pills. Trapped inside David’s apartment by a rainstorm, two strangers start uncovering truths about each other and start a healing process that doesn’t necessarily involve pills.
A young slam poet who can't escape his demons prepares to deliver his performance before a live audience.
A Puerto Rican seamstress ponders leaving her island to go live with her daughter in the United States.
Jorge is on the lookout for his ideal woman, guided by the advice of his favorite outdated radio show: Papo Amor.
In his senior year, an adolescent dad confronts the reality of his responsibilities as a growing adult.
Isolated in an old rustic house, a father must confront apparitions of his recently deceased daughter a day away from her funeral.
Ofelia receives a call from her ex-wife, Maité, announcing she's in labor. On their way to the hospital, they resume the unfinished issues of their past and deal with the uncertainties of motherhood.
One early morning, 21 year-old Samantha, is suddenly woken up by her mother because her father, Ernesto, is experiencing a dangerous low-blood sugar episode. This overwhelming situation unleashes an internal struggle in Samantha, forcing her to confront memories of trauma and her greatest fears.
Natividad, Aldwin and Alberto, residents of the Miramar community in Guayama, Puerto Rico, one of the communities mainly affected by the Applied Energy Systems (AES) coal mine, narrate their daily struggles against the burning of mineral coal, and the use and deposit of toxic ash near their homes.
A pregnant woman makes a series of phone calls to her doctor and loved ones while she waits alone to give birth at her parent's bathtub.
The COVID-19 pandemic brings a new challenge for Lis, a non-binary person, mother of two pre-teens; a struggle to continue being Simón, their drag king alte-ego, while enduring quarentine locked up with their family.