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Against Eva’s wishes, her mother wants to remodel the house and get rid of the cat, which, disoriented since the divorce, urinates everywhere. Eva wants to live with her father, who, like the cat, is lost in a second adolescence.

This film follows the fate of several characters trapped in a Kafkaesque situation—waiting endlessly in line at the Costa Rican Immigration Department. Men and women from all walks of life coexist unwillingly in this bureaucratic microcosm, where time and process seem eternal, and their futures hang in the balance.

In the Martínez family, everything was perfect—or almost perfect—until tragedy struck unexpectedly with a serious accident.

Composed of twelve episodes lasting between four and eight minutes, the series explores the stories behind words like “mae,” “¡upe!,” “pargo,” and even “polo”, as well as expressions such as “amarrar el perro” or the Costa Rican habit of adding the famous diminutives “tico” or “illo” to words. More than just a history of Costa Rican slang, the series also humorously reflects on the country’s national idiosyncrasy—its virtues as well as its few forgivable flaws.

Against Eva’s wishes, her mother wants to remodel the house and get rid of the cat, which, disoriented since the divorce, urinates everywhere. Eva wants to live with her father, who, like the cat, is lost in a second adolescence.

This film follows the fate of several characters trapped in a Kafkaesque situation—waiting endlessly in line at the Costa Rican Immigration Department. Men and women from all walks of life coexist unwillingly in this bureaucratic microcosm, where time and process seem eternal, and their futures hang in the balance.

In the Martínez family, everything was perfect—or almost perfect—until tragedy struck unexpectedly with a serious accident.

Composed of twelve episodes lasting between four and eight minutes, the series explores the stories behind words like “mae,” “¡upe!,” “pargo,” and even “polo”, as well as expressions such as “amarrar el perro” or the Costa Rican habit of adding the famous diminutives “tico” or “illo” to words. More than just a history of Costa Rican slang, the series also humorously reflects on the country’s national idiosyncrasy—its virtues as well as its few forgivable flaws.