Gabriela 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.

Quelque part en Amérique latine. Le vieux gardien de la morgue se souvient de chaque détail de sa vie sauf des noms, y compris du sien. A la suite d’une manifestation qui a tourné au massacre, la milice investit la morgue pour se débarrasser des civils qu’ils ont abattus. Après leur départ, le vieil homme découvre le corps oublié d’une jeune femme…

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.