Spoilers.
As it says in the plot summary, Maria, a stage magician, married but a month, is on the way to a gig where Hector, her husband, is waiting. Her minibus breaks down, and in the rain and dark she hitches a ride in a passing bus. The bus drops her at a locked mental hospital, and the passenger list is destroyed in the rain. She never gets to make the phone call that she expected to do, and the staff assume that she is an inmate and won't let her out. Hector assumes that she has gone back to her previous boyfriend, and when she gets to a phone by breaking into the administration wing he refuses to talk to her. He doesn't report her or the minibus to the police as missing for over a month. Finally when the hospital staff track him down, he accepts their perspective that she is crazy, visits her only once and leaves her there!!! To call him a bastard or an idiot is quite insufficient: he is a failure as a human being.
This film is quite disturbing, a film of psychological horror.
By the way, the gringo version is 35 minutes shorter than the Mexican original. Is this just a tighter edit, or is something cut?
As it says in the plot summary, Maria, a stage magician, married but a month, is on the way to a gig where Hector, her husband, is waiting. Her minibus breaks down, and in the rain and dark she hitches a ride in a passing bus. The bus drops her at a locked mental hospital, and the passenger list is destroyed in the rain. She never gets to make the phone call that she expected to do, and the staff assume that she is an inmate and won't let her out. Hector assumes that she has gone back to her previous boyfriend, and when she gets to a phone by breaking into the administration wing he refuses to talk to her. He doesn't report her or the minibus to the police as missing for over a month. Finally when the hospital staff track him down, he accepts their perspective that she is crazy, visits her only once and leaves her there!!! To call him a bastard or an idiot is quite insufficient: he is a failure as a human being.
This film is quite disturbing, a film of psychological horror.
By the way, the gringo version is 35 minutes shorter than the Mexican original. Is this just a tighter edit, or is something cut?