A Costa Rican family reckons with buried secrets, corporate exploitation, and generational trauma across decades, steeped in spirits and omens.
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A Costa Rican family reckons with buried secrets, corporate exploitation, and generational trauma across decades, steeped in spirits and omens.
Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, and her husband disappears, the future of Teresa’s family is changed forever.
Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her...
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Mild sensualization and love themes; not a central explicit focus
Lethal plantation fire, implied deaths, and corporate violence without graphic gore
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Recurring ancestral spirits, omens, and anthropomorphic forces of nature
Ghostly maternal presence and ancestral spirits in a magical-realist mode
Central critique of US imperialism, banana-company exploitation, and colonialism
Suicide and mental-health struggles addressed as recurring family themes
Generational trauma, machismo, pesticide sterilization, and family dysfunction
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