A toll booth worker decides to combine her official job with a more unofficial, perhaps illegal one. What matters is the extra money because she has an odd goal: she wants her own son to undergo a “gay cure” propagated by a famous foreign pastor.
A mum tries at all costs to live a ‘so-called’ normal life. This means living according to the codes of decency, humility and honesty. And let that apply to you, to the man who is your boyfriend and your son, and everything will be fine. But for Suellen (heiress to the name of the malicious Dallas viper), life isn’t going her way. And the more she tries to live a normal life, the more she receives texts from friends about her son’s videos on Youtube. Carolina Marcowicz doesn’t take the easy way out. When Suellen warns her son Tiquinho that he has to be ‘normal’, her life takes a turn because in order to help him find the right therapy to reconvert to heterosexuality, she enters the world of organised crime and all the values she professed before are thrown out of the window. Suellen and Arauto, the now criminal duo, no longer look at the means to the end. On the opposite side, the son has a coming-of-age narrative, always on the right side, trying to please everyone until in the end he pleases himself. This is a film that constantly challenges the viewer to follow a narrative that deconstructs itself, that uses the artifice of the narrative to change the characters and that, by ridiculing their actions, lays bare the dramas of modern society and its causes. – Miguel Valverde
