Shot on 16mm, SIESTA is a film steeped in Paraguayan folklore that depicts the nightmarish experience of Ramona, an immigrant domestic worker who cares for a wealthy Argentine family in the US: a sick young girl named Cindy and her pregnant mother. In an effort to mitigate Cindy’s jealousy toward her unborn baby brother, Ramona tells Cindy a cautionary tale from her childhood. But when Cindy’s jealousy toward her brother reaches new heights during her mother’s baby shower, Ramona’s premonitions begin to escalate in parallel and ultimately revive ghosts from her past and test her love for the child.

SIESTA puts an inquisitive magnifying glass on class dynamics within a latinx subgroup and the wider milieu of the filthy rich in America. It examines our desperate need to assimilate, and the dissociative experience of feeling inextricably linked to two clashing worlds. The core of this film is energized by the ghosts of our past and the love that has sustained us.