Colombian Film: ANINA | Proimágenes Colombia

Synopsis

Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old schoolgirl. As her names are all palindromes, she has become the laughing-stock of her classmates, and especially of Yisel, whom Anina sees as a sort of elephant. One day, fed up with all the taunting, Anina starts a fight with Yisel during recess. The incident ends with the principal punishing the girls and calling their parents. Anina receives her punishment inside a sealed black envelope, which she is told not to open until she meets with the principal again a week later. She is also forbidden to tell anyone about the envelope. Her classmates pressure her to find out what the punishment will be, while they imagine cruel physical tortures. In her anxiousness to find out what horrible punishment awaits her in the mysterious black envelope, Anina becomes mixed up in a series of problems involving secret loves and confessed hatreds, close friendships and dreadful enemies, and the love and hate of her teachers. Without realizing it, Anina’s efforts to understand the contents of the envelope becomes a quest to make sense of the world that surrounds her.