About the film

In a city surviving on the drug legacy of Pablo Escobar, an existential chasm emerges among the young queer community, filled with dancing raves. But the monster lurking beneath the surface is waiting for the first rays of morning.

In his debut film, Theo Montoya composes an ode to his hometown and a narratively layered confession to Colombian cinema. From the originally intended fictional dystopia, in which the ailing Medellín is depicted as a burial ground for the ideals of the past and a physical monster devouring the illusions of the future, the authentic testimonies of a queer generation seep through. This genre-eccentric personal memoir, which flips through an album of fading faces of young people, captivated audiences at the Venice Film Festival. *The film contains explicit sex scenes.