La Llorona, a supernatural being who seeks revenge for the death of her daughters, attacks a group of young people on vacation at the beach, after they accidentally kill a girl.
Rosa is young and athletic, a beautiful Garifuna from the Honduran Atlantic who works as a correspondent for a Honduran newspaper. She is commissioned to write a newspaper article about the legend of La Llorona to have it ready for Halloween day.
At night, when going to the local hospital to cover news of events, Rosa regrets not being able to party with her former college friends.
Not far from there, a group of Rosa’s friends have fun in at a club in Sambo Creek. Julio, Tavo, Martín are accompanied by Rocío and Micaela. The night seems to get better when the group is joined by Maria, a young woman.
To continue the party at the beach house of one of the boys, they decide to go in the same car. In the middle of the dark night, Julio loses control of the vehicle and runs over crosses placed on the banks of the road. After the initial shock, the irreverence of the youngsters is seen although one of the girls asks that they respect the crosses and put it back in its place. Nobody pays attention to them and the party continues.
What they don’t know is that they just woke up the spirit of the weeping woman, the spirit of a woman who cries the death of her daughters.
At the beach house the young woman is gang raped. Finally the young woman escapes but the boys ride in the vehicle and chase her. In the middle of the darkness of the night, the girl is scared to feel the presence of a being who stalks her and that causes her accidental death by the boys when they run her over.
Instead of seeking help and calling the authorities, they decide to hide the event and bury the young woman’s body.
From there it will unleash an orgy of blood and death between them at night. Gradually, each of them will be infected by conjunctivitis, and whoever has this condition begins to mutilate themselves until death. Rosa learns what is happening with her friends and decides to go to help them.
The Director
Liana Hassim was born on August 21,1989 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. She is a screenwriter, director and actress. She has a BA in drama and performance and has her honours in Motion Picture.
In 2014, her first film, She Loves Me Not, was invited to screen at the Durban Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. In 2015, her short film David’s Winter, screened at the African International Film Festival in Lagos, Nigeria. It also scooped the award for Best Edit at the 2015 annual Ethekwini Filmmaker Awards. The Halfway House, David’s Winter and Amandiya also went on to win the awards for Best |
Student film at the Simon Sabela Awards, for three consecutive years. She is currently nominated for her fourth, for best director of a short film. Her latest documentary entitled Behind the Monologue screened at Durban International Film Festival this year and took the award for best Documentary Short at the Simon Sabela Awards.
She is currently writing her first feature film.
She is currently writing her first feature film.