Created by Gonzalo Cordova (‘Tuca & Bertie’, ‘Adam Ruins Everything’) and produced in partnership with Mexico City-based studio Cinema Fantasma (‘Frankelda’s Book of Spooks’), the stop-motion movie, featuring an all-woman cast, it follows Marioneta, a proud wealthy Spaniard living in 1980s Quito, Ecuador. There she encounters a diverse group of eccentric and ambitious women navigating the complicated worlds of love, family, and cuys (guinea pigs). And remember, guinea pigs are family, not food.

In 1982 when she arrived in Paris, my Costa Rican mother sent a series of letters to her parents. Forty years later, I revisit these letters to have a better understanding of my history.