Paulina

A breathtakingly beautiful, deeply disturbing story of one woman's remarkable ability to transcend the effects of casual brutality, told by middle-aged housekeeper Paulina Cruz Suarez. Born into poverty in the remote Mexican village of Puntilla, still run in the 1950s like a feudal fifedom by the local cacique, Paulina's childhood was shattered by an accident: While bathing in a metal washtub, eight-year-old Paulina slipped and fell, injuring her private parts. As Paulina tells it, her parents, apparently hoping to gain influence over cacique Don Mauro de la Cruz (whose roving eye had already come to rest on Paulina) accused him of rape. Rather than d...