Agua turbia

In Cuitla, a village high in the mountains where poverty and gossip are stalked by coyotes, Lupe carries a heavy burden of guilt. What began as a clandestine remedy to help her friend Margarita—the daughter of the wealthy owners of the Los Amates estate—ends in tragedy: a death, an unnamed baby, and a silence that binds Lupe to that family forever. As the girl’s body vanishes and her parents search for her—amidst news reports and prayers—Lupe must continue to set the table, wash the laundry, and answer questions from the police and everyone else in the household... all while pretending she knows nothing. All around her, violence seeps into every crack: in the local healer who flees; in the sick who arrive and end up staying in the chicken coop; in the boyfriend who blackmails her; and in the mistress of the house, who begins to unravel—forcing a slow, inexorable transformation of reality itself.