The Pleasure of Killing a Mother

El placer de matar a una madre (The pleasure of killing a mother) explores the oppression of women during the Franco regime and is inspired by real events in different psychiatric centers. Under Franco´s dictatorship women who broke from social norms (single mothers, lesbians, women with mental disabilities, even women raped by a family member) were sent to mental hospitals. These women were deemed sick. The official discourse was that they were helping them. El placer de matar a una madre revolves around the contradictions of the last years of Franco. The plot addresses the mechanisms used by the Franco regime to control its subjects, while building an intimate story and, in line with the resolution of a mystery, proposes an interesting reflection.