The life of two women and their bourgeois families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina – Martel’s own hometown.
“Nightmares were useful for me even though the film was not at all based on those nightmares. Like many people, I have sometimes dreamt that I have killed.
“Lucrecia has had a very liberating effect on a lot of people, who have realized that one’s own story, told well, is enough; there’s no need to go searching elsewhere. In the intimate, in observation, in that ‘dead’ moment of the afternoon, the siesta, there’s so much.”
“I saw the past as a shapeless, visceral mass, yet still somehow perfectible. It had its noble elements but among them I couldn’t help but recognize something – the main thing – that was viscous, unpleasant, and elusive to the grasp, like the intestines of a freshly disemboweled animal.”