The Vice of Hope

Maria walks firmly; her hood up, her time flows along with the river she lives by. A hand-to-mouth life, without dreams or desires, spent taking care of her mother and at the service of a merciless, bejeweled old lady. With her brave-eyed pit-bull, she ferries pregnant women across the river, leading them to a painful, infernal fate.

But hope will pay Maria a visit, in its most ancestral and powerful form, as miraculous as life itself, teaching her that staying human is the greatest of all revolutions.