A couple on holiday discovers where the source of their discontent lies after day drinking in the heat, and an unexpected text from back home devolves into an argument and separate nights out. Their secret truths are revealed with the sunrise.
Elena and Nick have been dating for three years. They’re on holiday in the Caribbean. A much needed reset in their tension filled relationship due largely to a recent open relationship trial. They’re spending the day drinking and relaxing when Elena discovers via Nick’s mobile that he’s in communication with a girl he promised he wouldn’t see anymore. This discovery brews doubt and coldness in her. While Nick playfully continues to drink, smoke his cigars and flirt with waitresses
Elena decides to confront the texts. Which sparks an argument on the boundaries and realities of their open relationship arrangement and true desires for the other. This causes a rupture that sends each of them in opposite directions for the rest of night. They’re both too proud.
Elena finds herself alone on the beach reflecting on why she remains in a relationship that drains her where she feels like the provider, but never taken care of. As she wanders, a black SUV rolls up to proposition her for sex. They’ve mistaken her for a local sex worker. Elena finds this encounter illuminating in how she is seen by outsiders.
Nick, meanwhile, finds himself lost and without his phone working. He is solicited as well by localwoman working in the busy Zona Turistica where the nightlife has transformed.
He enters a bar where he confides in the bartender who helps him reach out to Elena. It’s clear he’s worried about her wll being and his role in everything that’s transpired.
Elena meanwhile returns to the hotel via a ride given by a local young Dominican mototaxi driver. She mistakes his kindness for flirtation and acts out of character - kissing him. Embarrassed Elena returns to the bar to drink where she ultimately gives in to the same desire to escape and brings a handsome foreign, stranger back to her room. This has her role playing as the sex worker the men took her for while also acting out of revenge/desire to have the same power and sexual rendezvous her partner, Nick, does.
Nick finally sobers up and finds the car and returns to the hotel. There Elena’s guest has just left. He embraces her in the shower. The two of them keeping their secrets and lies that especially co-dependence fosters. Ignoring the fact that, “mejor sola que mala acompañada.”
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