Juana Victoria steers the group of female artisans created by her mother to no longer depend on the unproductive cornfield. She is doing her best to make the business expand, as indicated by a premonitory dream. Her desire for well-being and her aspiration to greater prosperity imply an overload of huge tasks, but it allows Victoria to escape the traditional destiny of a woman in San Juan Cancuc: marriage, motherhood, working in the cornfield, and often mistreatment and poverty.
Orphan since her mother died when she was 7 months, Arabelle, 10 at the time of filming, grew up living with her father’s family. She views her aunt Victoria as an example to follow. She is now still active in the family business.
Doña Juana started the weaving collective and left it to her daughter Victoria, as she now focuses on being a mid-wife. As a grandmother, she takes care of Arabelle as if she were her daughter.
Director and researcher of the film, as well as anthropologist.
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