BELOVED TROPIC

Synopsis

Ana María is an illegal Colombian migrant in Panama. She has just turned 40, has no family and is alone. She faked a pregnancy so that they would take pity on her and give her a job in a nursing home. Jimena arrives at the nursing home desperately looking to hire someone to take care of her mother Mercedes, who has already fired four girls in a month. Ana Maria starts working at Mercedes’ house, a sullen aristocrat who is aware of how Alzheimer’s is devouring her. Mercedes does not fire her immediately and Ana Maria gradually begins to win her sympathy. As time goes by, Ana Maria finds it harder to get out of her own lie. Or maybe she wishes her pregnancy was real? In a tropical garden, these two women share a friendship and for a time save each other from isolation and loneliness.