Ana María, migrante colombienne illégale au Panama, vient d’avoir 40 ans. Elle n’a pas de famille et vit seule. Pour obtenir un job dans une maison de retraite, elle fait semblant d’être enceinte. Jimena recherche désespérément quelqu’un pour s’occuper de sa mère qui a déjà viré 4 filles en un mois. Ana María arrive ainsi dans la maison de Mercedes, une aristocrate maussade atteinte d’Alzheimer qui se voit dépérir, dévorée par la maladie. Mercedes ne la vire pas immédiatement et peu à peu Ana María gagne sa sympathie. Mais plus le temps passe plus il devient difficile pour elle de sortir de son mensonge. Peut-être souhaite-t-elle que cette grossesse soit réelle ? Dans un jardin tropical, l’amitié qui lie ces deux femmes va les sauver, pendant un instant, de l’isolement et de la solitude.
Armed with five mobiles, ENDRY CARDOÑA, sells phone calls in the city centre of Bogotá. In fact she is a living phone booth for the conversations of the city, from the local dealers to businessmen at lunch. ENDRY’s course of life changes when a drunken director invites her to a casting. At the audition ENDRY gets furious at the director, which ultimately lands her the role of USNAVY, the protagonist of the latest telenovela: “Without Artificial Tits there is no Paradise”. From one day to the next, ENDRY becomes a star. The whole nation watches USNAVY's story of rape and violence in the life of a transsexual prostitute from the slums of the Caribbean coast. She appears in every magazine, even the Colombian Playboy, moves into a Feng Shui chic apartment and attends parties for the social elite. One day in a first class gym, another customer complains to ENDRY for using the female dressing room. ENDRY is enraged with the customer and the owner of the gym, who in the end kicks her out. The telenovela becomes more and more sexually explicit and violent. ENDRY shows an extraordinary performance when they shoot the key scene of USNAVY’s father raping her. The next day ENDRY invites her best friends LAURITA and CLARA to a luxurious restaurant. When Music starts playing ENDRY climbs on top of the bar and starts ripping the cloths off her body in front of the conservative diners. LAURITA and CLARA manage to get her down and carry her outside. The final scene of the telenovela finds USAVY in the midst of a gunfight with the police, trying to protect her boyfriend, the local gangster, and both get shot dead in the street. At the wrap party the director offers ENDRY the lead role in the next telenovela: “Cocaine Wives”, but a transexual prostitute interrupts them begging for money. When ENDRY refuses, the transexual shouts out at her “You are one of us, bitch!” As the guards kick her out violently. After the party, affected by the event, ENDRY walks down to the city centre of Bogotá…
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