When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns.
Olivia suffers from OCD, a mental condition that manifests itself through a voice in her head that compels her to brush her teeth constantly. During Christmas Eve festivities in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, the voice comes back after being dormant for a year. Not having Health Care, she desperately...
MELAO tells the story of Nando, a sugarcane worker in 1950s Puerto Rico, desperate to provide for his family. In order to get the money to buy a plane ticket to NY, he makes a dangerous bet with the ruthless foreman of the plantation.