Valeria A. Avina

Ava taps into a parallel reality as they strip down their masquerade.

9-year-old Sofia wakes up their mother Karla and their mother's boyfriend Jacinto in the middle of the night while running away from a monster. As we follow Sofia's story we come across their struggles; some of these rooted in the trauma generated from their parents divorce and their struggle with gender identity. Issues that become more apparent in Sofia's behavior and triggers their ability to tell the difference between nightmares, dreams and reality.

A woman finds herself trapped in a basement with no memory of how she got there. As she's tormented mentally and physically by her kidnapper, she slowly regains her memory and realizes who she is and why she was taken.