Alanis

A bold and compelling drama, Berneri’s fifth feature film portrays three days in the life of Alanis, a young mother and sex worker struggling to survive. Together with her one-year-old son, she shares a so-called private apartment in downtown Buenos Aires with an older woman, Gisela, where the two live and work. One day, municipal inspectors posing as clients shut down their business and charge Gisela with human trafficking.

With nowhere else to turn, Alanis shows up at her aunt’s clothing store in Plaza Miserere, a violent inner-city neighborhood. Finding temporary refuge there, Alanis must now help her friend Gisela, take care of her son and somehow recover her own dignity. She will try to work at what she knows how to do best, but the streets have their own rules and Alanis will have to fight to make room for herself.