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Leidy, Fina and Clara leave their children in distant towns to be raised by relatives while they are away caring for somebody else’s child. Going back and forth between urban and rural scenarios, this documentary goes deep into the conflicts faced by live-in nannies.

In a love chain, where mother figures are substituted and duplicated, bonds grow strong between kids and their nannies, and between the nannies’ children and the grandmothers or aunts who care for them.

Is there just one way to define motherly love?

Selección Oficial 37 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Habana, Cuba.
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