- Ana a former actress gets the chance to reunite herself with a Ophelia, a character she played years back, when she met and fell for the man who is her husband now. However, at this point, her marriage is facing a difficult time. What keeps them together is their 6 year old son. Ana, by becoming Ophelia once again and under these circumstances she suffers a personality split which leads her to an extreme and life changing juncture, something she has never faced before.—Mariana Burelli
- Ana is an actress who is about to start rehearsing the "Hamlet's Machine", the same play several years ago joined with Eduardo, the play director and now her husband. During that first rehearsal she awakens Ophelia's spirit and collapses. During a series of psychiatric therapy sessions alternated with frequent infidelities, Ana dodges her family life feeling inner resentment towards the monotony her life has turned into, growing apart from her little 8 years old son Alex and her 10 years older husband Eduardo. Eduardo is about to change publishing company and sell it to a new foreign investor. After several complicated family episodes, Eduardo proposes a family trip to the volcanoes. Alex, very curious after reading about the legend describing the tragedy of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl feels excited about it, yet Ana refuses to join the plan. Finally, Eduardo and Alex embark on that journey and through a kind of shared grief, find a common place of peace and joy. Ana is carried by Ophelia's momentum to the waterfall of El Encanto where the character finally comes back to nature, freeing Ana. Facing the volcanoes, Eduardo and Alex see the return of Ana. The mexican legend of the two volcanoes (Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl), the play (Hamlet's Machine) and their life story seems to meet at the point where the Popocatepetl volcano explodes and takes what seems a first breath ... Years later, in the same Paso de Cortes, a grown up Alex and his girlfriend visit the same place. Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl witness once again. The coexistence between living things, their myths and legends.—Alejandro Molina
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