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And in Sarmiento Park, in the heart of Córdoba, she discovers the strange, wonderful world of the trans sex workers who dwell there.

Deeply intelligent, she eventually leaves for the city to attend university, slipping into prostitution to make ends meet. She is well aware that she's different from other children and reacts to her oppressive, poverty-stricken home life, with a cowed mother and abusive, alcoholic father, by acting out-with swift consequences. “I consider it necessary to think about a trans narrative in cinema, and this film is a huge possibility to immerse ourselves in a story built by the hands of a trans person to talk about another trans person, with something so authentic and disconcerting for cinema like that,” said film’s writer-director Van de Couter.Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts.īorn in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Camila is designated male but begins to identify from an early age as a girl. Even at the cost of its principal character’s body, a trans actress with a life that she wants and that is difficult for her,” said Sosa Villada.

“The trans story is no longer that of someone who spies on us and tries to fleece our history to give away a creation that escapes from pitiful, pious and documentary.

The screen adaptation of the novel is in charge of Sosa Villada, Van de Couter and Huberman. The domestication from which they derive their peace will be threatened by a trip to the town where the actress’s family lives.Īrgentina’s Laura Huberman (“Alanís,” “El perro que no calla”) and Ramiro Pavón (“El perfecto David,” “El perro que no calla”) will produce, in co-production with La Corriente del Golfo.

“A dystopia far removed from the gaze with which the trans world is usually observed,” according to a producers’ statement, the film tells the story of a successful transgender actress, her husband, a brand new gay lawyer, and their adopted son, who make up a family that has gone through many tests and adaptations to be accepted as such.