by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
In this experimental self-portrait, director Mary Jimenez goes back to her home in Peru after a long absence living in Belgium. Jimenez has undergone years of therapy to overcome personal traumas suffered while young, and she interviews a variety of people to try to get at better understanding of her relationship to her mother. As these people voice their memories and Jimenez recalls her past, scenes of Lima with its own brand of mentally disturbed street people indicate that the director is not alone in her struggle to gain and keep a hold on sanity.
