Gabriel Leyva

After the loss of her father, a young woman takes on a third job to make ends meet in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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 searches for the pills that will control her OCD without a prescription. Through her friend Jessica, who she met years ago in a mental institution, she meets David, the town’s pharmacist’s son, who agrees to sell her the pills. Trapped inside David’s apartment by a rainstorm, two strangers start uncovering truths about each other and start a healing process that doesn’t necessarily involve pills.

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.

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.