Director Maite Alberdi’s film begins with a flashback to a wedding. Alejandra, a young bride pregnant with the couple’s first child, sweeps across the dance floor in the arms of her husband. Alberdi crafts an elaborate reenactment with scripted scenes to share Alejandra’s description of what happens next. Shortly after they are married, Alejandra loses the pregnancy. Devastated, she navigates her own longing for a child alongside mounting pressure from her husband and extended family. When Alejandra miscarries a third time, she decides not to tell her family, pretending she is still expecting. A chance encounter with a pregnant woman at the hospital where she works sets a surprising sequence of events into motion. Halfway through the film, the actors fall away and new interviews introduce perspectives and facts that challenge the original narrative. Retracing events that made headlines in Mexico in the 1990s, Alberdi’s alternative approach upends the conventional true crime format, offering space to consider Alejandra’s pain and the stories she told herself to try to justify an extreme act. ST