El baile y el incendio

After years without seeing each other, in Cuernavaca three friends who met in adolescence intersect: Natalia, Erre and Conejo. The trio's reunion brings out the past and confronts them with their present: friendship and desire, the distant discovery of sexuality, complex father-child relationships, the stress of growing up and trying to find a place in life, the aspirations that the creativity that seeks to express itself remains by the wayside... In the background, two obsessive presences announced in the title: the fires that ravage the area until the air is unbreathable and cause a feeling of enclosure and uncertainty, and the dance. The dance is a choreography prepared by Natalia, it is the mythical Hexentanz -the witch's dance- of the expressionist dancer Mary Wigman, it is the witch dances and the strange dance epidemics of the Middle Ages, which may now be repeated in Cuernavaca. The city under the Malcolm Lowry volcano, the city where Charles Mingus went to die and through which Hollywood stars of yesteryear walked, acquires, between reality and myth, a special prominence as an increasingly disturbing space from which it may be best to leave while possible.