Helena and Kira argue on the side of the road. There is no destination in mind, there is no plan to follow. The journey unfolds kilometer by kilometer, a journey that soon becomes a ritual.

Everybody has a mother. But still, motherhood remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ —always patient, caring and happy— and the private reality of mothers around the world, a huge void in understanding remains. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, Malamadre narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mothers’ point of view.

A group of artists carry out a creative residency at a recording studio located in the middle of the mountains of Córdoba. As a result of the collaborative and exploratory work, they achieve some musical material that expands the borders of musical genres.

As in a western, the strength of the film lies in the splendid silence of the Mapuche landscapes of southern Argentina. During his transhumance, the tenderness of Don Ernaldo, his children and his siblings, is scratched by the hostile barbed wire, laid for profitable economic purposes, which the natives always despise and assimilate to the poor. They organize their survival between modernity and necessary resistance.