Crime Series
During a wake, three men —a Mexican, a Venezuelan, and an Argentine— accidentally become trapped on the rooftop of a funeral home. What begins as an absurd and uncomfortable wait gradually transforms, as night falls, into an intimate confrontation with the dead man who connects them and with everything he left unresolved within them. Separated from the ritual unfolding below, the three men move from courtesy to confession, and from discomfort to a shared truth none of them knew. After Never is an intimate, performance-driven drama about grief, memory, guilt, and the fragile possibility of change.
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Shane returns to his rural childhood home with one objective: get through a family gathering without reopening the wounds he buried decades ago. But when his uncle Mort — the man who raised him after his parents’ deaths — is declared missing, Shane is forced back into the place where his trauma began.
As police question the family, Shane’s composure fractures. His preserved childhood bedroom, filled with relics of boyhood, becomes a silent witness to what was taken from him. His wife Audrey senses the truth before Shane can speak it — that Mort’s disappearance is bound to years of sexual abuse hidden behind respectability and silence.
When Mort reappears unexpectedly at Shane and Audrey’s remote Australian property, the past refuses to stay buried. Audrey witnesses Mort’s predatory control over Shane and understands, with devastating clarity, that the abuse never truly ended. Faced with a system that failed a child and would protect the abuser again, Audrey acts. Mort is killed, and his disappearance becomes deliberate.
In the aftermath, Shane confronts the cost of survival — the shame, the fear, and the complicity enforced by love and family. As police search for answers inside the same house where the abuse occurred, Shane and Audrey choose a different kind of silence, mirroring the lies that once protected Mort.
Yet something shifts. Shane moves from a man frozen by trauma to one who is finally seen and defended. Audrey becomes both protector and moral reckoning. 'Wounds of a Boy' is a stark Australian psychological thriller about buried violence, inherited silence, and the terrible, transformative moment when a survivor is finally believed.
This film blends reality and fiction to offer a unique perspective on the possible whereabouts of Federico García Lorca's remains and what would happen if they were unexpectedly discovered ninety years after his assassination. Part of the story draws inspiration from real events that shaped its protagonists, while the other part springs from the author's imagination, who incorporates creative elements to enrich the narrative and explore emotions and possibilities beyond the documented facts. The result is a work that mixes truth and fantasy in a captivating balance. But the question remains: could it not be true? Judge for yourselves.
On their seventh wedding anniversary, Liu Xiaoyan and Li Ziyang end their marriage amidst a bitter argument. However, on the very day they receive their divorce certificate, Xiaoyan is diagnosed with suspected gastric cancer. Faced with the sudden onset of a terminal illness and the sting of perceived betrayal, the two—who had become virtual strangers—are forced back into each other's lives. Li Ziyang casts everything aside to accompany his ex-wife on a grueling journey toward recovery. Within the walls of a hospital ward filled with joy and sorrow, they witness the fragility of life and taste the bitterness of human nature. Yet, in this desperate struggle, they begin to re-examine one another and the true meaning of marriage. Moving from resentment and collapse to a bond where they must rely on each other to survive, they nourish their nearly withered love with blood and tears amidst the agony of fighting the disease. This is a journey of life defined by betrayal and protection, despair and rebirth, farewells and reunions. When the long winter finally fades, the flowers that once withered shall surely bloom again.
