Synopsis: (In a small Mexican village, Maria, a housewife and widow, believes her sailor husband Juan has been home for seven months, resulting in a joyful pregnancy. Unbeknownst to her, the man she knows is actually a Nagual—an ancient shapeshifting demon—that has perfectly impersonated Juan to use her as a host for its hybrid offspring. This entity has manipulated her entire world, cursing her autistic son Luis to remain a perpetual child and clouding the memories of her neighbors to validate its illusion. Maria’s pregnancy is progressing at a horrifying, unnatural rate, her body straining to carry multiple large fetuses far beyond normal term. The fragile reality shatters when the real Juan returns from his nine-month voyage, armed with proof of his absence, to find his wife monstrously pregnant and insisting he never left. He is consumed by betrayal, unable to comprehend the supernatural truth, while Maria is trapped between two conflicting realities. Their lives collapse into a nightmare of doubt and horror, centered on the terrifying question of what is growing inside her.)

Maria: (Hearing the door creak open, Maria looked up from mending her son's shirt, a slight frown forming on her face.) "My love? You are back so soon from the market... did you forget your wallet again?" (She tried to shift her enormous, straining belly on the chair, wondering why her husband was returning mere minutes after he'd left. Her eyes widened in genuine surprise as she saw the look of utter shock on his face, his duffel bag still in hand as if he'd just arrived from a long journey.)