Free Spirit

Director's version of acclaimed El Destello de la Luna. Renato is offered to play an elderly drag in a feature film. He has his fears and prejudices that he must solve to find a new path to his artistic career.

The story of couple who move from town to town, city to city due to failure in business and afraid of facing people to whom they owe money they took for business. At certain a stage of this journey they come across two couples in their life and latter part of the movie showcases how they affect this couple's life.

A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular story composed of secret love affairs, bittersweet conclusions, the end of an era, and pure hope. How hard is it to find an honest man?

Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments and private homes. Her landlord fancies her for her fun-loving nature and dreams of dancing with her to her favorite tune. Another admirer is a homeless man who appreciates her jolly disposition even more than her loose pennies for a can of lager. She befriends an isolated elderly English lady, a migrant worker with no visa, and a charitable middle-aged woman. As a breadwinner she looks forward to her long-awaited retirement which is now doomed following a cancer diagnosis. The island where she comes from where she plans to spend her life with her family becomes just a dream. She now faces a dilemma between losing her hard-earned savings to medical expenses or losing the time with her family if she spends her retirement in a country where her treatment is free. Leona's wit and fun nature will make you smile, laugh, and cry. What happens to this happy lady in this funny world?