Overview
- The film world premiered on Feb. 14 at the Berlin Film Festival in a special presentation, with Netflix distribution and Gato Grande producing.
- It revisits the 2008–2009 case of Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza, who feigned pregnancy and in June 2009 left Mexico City’s Hospital General de México with a newborn before she and her husband were arrested.
- Key facts remain disputed, including Ale’s claim of an informal arrangement with the baby’s mother, which the other woman denies in interviews.
- Alberdi uses a docu-fiction approach that blends reenactments by a professional Mexican cast with interviews, observation, and archival material spanning roughly 16 years.
- Ana Celeste Montalvo Peña portrays Ale and Armando Espitia plays her husband, as Alberdi emphasizes context over judgment and explores social pressure to motherhood in Latin America, with early criticism praising the film’s fact–fiction interplay.