Malta Cine

Carlos is a talentless ventriloquist that loves her mother as much as he hates her. When she dies he finally meets success but inevitably he will end up hugging her now transformed into a dummy.

It’s 2011 in Colombia, a condiment company has made a promotion offering 2000 pressure cookers in exchange for their products´ empty containers. In Cartagena, Cristobal, a 24 year old guy whose mother is obsessed with the product, joins the queue the night before the promotion starts. He thinks he is at the beginning of the line, but soon realises he is barely in the middle. The fact that the promotion only consists of 2000 pressure cookers does not deter the over 12000 people queuing in Cartagena alone. Shy and unemployed, Cristobal tries to make the most of the time with his new ‘neighbours’.

A young woman, in the limbo of finishing college and embracing adulthood, wanders around different places in Bogotá and encounters different people while she deals with the uncertainty of the future and a certain nostalgia for the present.