Perro Negro

George Walker Torres

After school, Miguel (7) usually secretly enters the room of Carmen, the young maid who works in his house. She tells him fantastic stories about strange characters. The boy listens fascinated, but Elena, his mother, looks at them with fear and frustration. Miguel is convinced that La Llorona, one of Carmen’s strange characters, is a woman who lives with her dogs in the abandoned woods next to her house. What for Carmen was just a game, for the boy becomes a vital reality. Miguel goes beyond the limits of his backyard and crosses a high wall to meet the mysterious woman.