'Tótem': irreproachable naturalistic drama between party and death. The gaze of the Mexican Lila Avilés sticks like a limpet to her creatures.

The viewer is placed just a few centimeters from the characters, listens to them as if they were part of their actions, almost like an interlocutor. “I wish daddy doesn't die,” says his seven-year-old daughter as she conspiratorially plays a game of requests with her mother. It is one of the few explicit presences of death (perhaps the only one) in the text.