In this HBO original documentary, filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo - of Puerto Rican origins - embarks on a fantastical quest to come to terms with her torturous adolescence during her high school years in the 1990s. Oscillating between present and past, hallucination and reality, the film explores the power of teen fantasy, the subtle violence of cultural assimilation, and the mirror of the passage of time.
In this HBO original documentary, filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo - of Puerto Rican origins - embarks on a fantastical quest to come to terms with her torturous adolescence during her high school years in the 1990s. Oscillating between present and past, hallucination and reality, the film explores the power of teen fantasy, the subtle violence of cultural assimilation, and the mirror of the passage of time.
