Through both interviews and dramatic reenactments this documentary chronicles the life of Paulina Cruz SuárezIn the 1950s when Paulina was a child in a rural Mexican village her parents traded her away for land rights The villagers ostracized her and the town boss raped her keeping her as his unwilling mistress throughout much of her adolescence At 15 she took control of her destiny and escaped to Mexico City to begin a new life Now middleaged Paulina returns to her village to confront her family about what happened and encounters a web of intrigue and denial PAULINA interweaves documentary and fiction styles to explore the characters radically different perspectives and memories and those of this vital resilient woman
