Ungüents

2006, 15 minutes

True story of a woman who sells cosmethics made with human bodies

In 1912, Enriqueta is a low class woman that once a weeks dresses up in nice clothes to go to the opera and sell her home-made cosmethics to rich women, who believe them to have magical properties. To make her body lotions and creams, Enriqueta uses the fat, blood and tissues of little kids that she kidnapes for the street.

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