Tisha (Nayla Churruarin) harvests organs in exchange for narcotics and undertakes hits for money. It’s a post-apocalyptic world; food is scarce and no one can be trusted. When she’s hired by an old woman to take down a local Mr Big, she finds herself strapped to a bed in a grimy world of whores and drugged-up gangsters.
This Argentinian film is directed by Eric Fleitas and Luciana Garraza, who deliver a Road Warrior-style world filtered through the grubbiest lens possible. The camera is constantly moving and changing style, making the viewer often feel disorientated. It’s the perfect feeling for the scenario we’re watching as Tisha attempts to achieve her objective. Where oil was the main trade in the Mad Max world, here it’s intestines and viscera. The directors manage to fit a lot into the relatively short running time and some of the situations (involving rape and abuse) will be hard to watch for some viewers, but rest assured, the payoff is worth it. Nayla Churruarin is strangely mesmerising as the main character, a true fighter whose story gets a bittersweet conclusion. The rest of the cast are portrayed as either doped-up oddballs or strong but obnoxious thugs but Tisha is shown to have at least some conscience.
The story, like almost everything in the movie, is raw and ragged but delivers a powerful sucker-punch ending and plenty of bloody thrills on the way.