Cenen. Eat.

¿qué te pasa, mamita? What's wrong, mommy?

Es que ya es muy tarde y su papá nada más no llega. It's just that it's very late and their dad still hasn't arrived.

Mamá, no te preocupes y mejor cena con nosotras. Mom, don't worry and just have dinner with us.

No tengo hambre, karina. Nada de hambre.

I'm not hungry, karina. Not hungry at all.

¿por qué estás llegando a esta hora, gonzalo? ¿qué?

Why are you coming home at this hour, gonzalo? What?

No me grites, sonia, siempre es lo mismo contigo. Don't yell at me, sonia, it's always the same with you.

Pues respóndeme, well, answer me, ¿por qué estás llegando a esta hora? Why are you coming home at this hour?

Porque tuve que trabajar horas extras because i had to work overtime y ya bájale a tu intensidad, sonia. And tone down your intensity, sonia.

Mis papitos se están peleando. My parents are fighting.

Me tienes harto, you're making me sick, siempre que llego a mi casa son puras discusiones contigo. Every time i come home it's just arguments with you.

Me tienes harto, harto. You're making me sick, sick.

Pues yo también estoy harta de ti, well, i'm also sick of you, harta de aguantarte tired of putting up with you y harta de ser la única que cuida a las niñas, fíjate. And tired of being the only one who takes care of the girls, you know.

Porque tú eres su madre, because you are their mother, porque yo trabajo y tú no, es tu obligación cuidarlas. Because i work and you don't, it's your obligation to take care of them.

Las niñas no solo necesitan una mamá, the girls don't just need a mom, también necesitan un padre que vea por ellas. They also need a father who looks after them.

Lapiz labial. Lipstick.

Traes la camisa manchada de lapiz labial. You have lipstick on your shirt.

Claro, claro. Of course, of course.

Andas con otra vieja, por eso estás llegando a esta hora. You're with another woman, that's why you're coming home at this hour.

Eres un maldito infeliz, gonzalo. You're a damn bastard, gonzalo.

Supongo que ya no tiene caso ocultarlo más. I guess there's no point in hiding it anymore.

Sí. Yes.

Tengo una amante y me voy a vivir con ella. I have a lover and i'm going to live with her.

¿ah, sí? Pues ¿qué haces aquí?

Oh, yeah? Well, what are you doing here?

Ándale, ándale, lárgate. Come on, come on, get out.

Lárgate ahora mismo con ella, lárgate para siempre de mi vida. Get out right now with her, get out of my life forever.

Yo, yo no te necesito y voy a salir sola adelante, i, i don't need you and i'm going to get ahead on my own, con mis hijas, ándale. With my daughters, come on.

Lárgate, lárgate, lárgate... Get out, get out, get out...

¡está bien! ¡está bien!

Okay! Okay!

Me voy. I'm leaving.

Al fin y al cabo, ella es mejor amante que tú. After all, she's a better lover than you.

Papito, no te vayas. Daddy, don't go.

Papito, por favor no te vayas. Daddy, please don't go.

Papito, no. Daddy, no.

Papito, que no se vaya por favor. Daddy, please don't let him go.

Se ha ido y para siempre. He's gone and forever.

Ahora somos nosotras dos y maría josé, hija. Now it's just the two of us and maría josé, daughter.

Tu padre se ha ido. Your father is gone.

De esta generación of this generation y van a venir todos mis compañeros de grupo, and all my groupmates are coming, y ustedes se van a hacer cargo de llevar la fiesta. And you are going to be in charge of running the party.

Se van a encargar de coordinar a los meseros... You will be in charge of coordinating the waiters...

Mamita, tengo hambre. Mommy, i'm hungry.

Come on, little sister, leave mom alone. I'm going to feed you.

Come on. Come on.

It's time to take a bath, maría josé. Let's see, raise your little hands, that's it, higher.

I'm done combing your hair. You look like a little princess, but oh well.

Now i'm going to put... Now i'm going to put your shoes on, little sister.

Let's see. We're going to put one on you.

My money is running out and all the services have to be paid. Good morning, doña sonia.

Don elario. Good morning.

I've come for the rent. I can't keep waiting for it any longer.

The month is almost halfway through and the rent is paid within the first five days of each month. Don elario, look, gonzalo hasn't been paid, but they're about to pay him today or tomorrow at the latest.

Please, don elario, i beg you. Give me until the weekend, okay?

Please. Look, the truth is that we've never failed to pay the rent, please, okay?

Okay. Only because you've never failed to pay me, i'll give you until the weekend, but not one day more.

Have a good day. Thank you, don elario, have a good day too.

Gonzalo. Ah.

Sonia. It's you.

What do you want? Why are you calling me?

To beg me to come back to you? No.

I'm calling you to cover all the financial responsibilities. To bring me money for your daughters' expenses, for the services, the rent, and food.

What? Of course i'm not going to give you a penny, sonia.

Remember you kicked me out of the house? Well, figure it out as you can.

You said you could do it alone, right? Well, solve your problems yourself.

Bastard. You're a bastard, gonzalo.

Okay, now i'm counting. Hide while i count.

One, run! Two.

Three, four, five. - hello, mommy.

- hello. Hello, maría josé.

Karina, please give your sister dinner. Brush her teeth and put her to bed.

The truth is that i'm very tired and i just want to lie down and sleep. So take care of your sister, okay?

Okay, mommy. Come on, maría josé, let's have dinner.

I'm going to prepare something really delicious for you. - karina.

- yes, mommy? Today i'm going to stay to work a double shift to be able to pay the month's expenses and the rent.

So, from now on, you're going to become my right hand. From this moment on, you're going to have to help me with maría josé and with everything that has to do with the house: sweeping it, cleaning it, mopping it, making the beds...

- understood, karina? - yes, mommy.

Karina, i'm going out with some friends to clear my head. Don't go to sleep late, and i'm entrusting your sister to you.

Yes, mommy. Goodbye, maría josé.

And the little princess fell asleep very nicely and began to dream. María josé, come have breakfast, you're going to be late to go to high school.

I'm coming. Come on.

Wow, how delicious. Thank you for spoiling me so much, kari, you're the best.

I made you the chilaquiles with chicken, the way you like them, huh? With green sauce and avocado.

They're delicious, thank you. Did you say goodbye to my mom?

Oh, no. I didn't want to bother her.

Since she worked a double shift and got out late, well, better not to. Well, speaking of being late, hurry up and have breakfast because i have to leave early for school.

My students are very punctual and the truth is, i don't want problems with the principal. Hey, kari, in the afternoon can i have permission to go to the movies with my friend camila?

You know you can, but come home early, okay? Yes, will you give me money for the tickets and the popcorn and stuff?

Yes, yes, yes, just send me your location in real time. I don't want to be worried, okay?

In real time? Yes, well, with this old thing, let's see if the message gets to you, huh?

Eat now, you're going to be late, please. Okay.

So, if we put together the letter c, with the vowel a, it says "ca". "ca".

Very good, and if we put together the consonant s with the vowel a, it says "sa". "sa".

So, with these letters, we put together the word "casa". "casa".

That's it, very good. Hello, professor miguel.

I know it's your turn for physical education with my students. That's right, teacher karina.

You are more beautiful than yesterday. Well, dear students, you can now go out to physical education class with professor miguel.

Please, go out. Yes, teacher.

Very good. This way, kids, come on.

Run. - are they behaving, or not?

- yes. - do they listen to their teacher?

Yes. Come on, i see you.

There will be a party at my house and obviously i want you to be there, maría josé, so don't tell me no. No?

Obviously i'm going to your party, iván. Hey, and who else is going?

- ah, do you know josé? - oh, obviously.

Well, and you can also invite your friends if you want... No way, karina.

It's obvious that you have miguel wrapped around your finger. He's dying for you.

What's wrong with you, gabriela? No, no, no, don't say that, how could you think that.

Oh, you know it's true. As your friend, i advise you that you should dress up a little more, make the most of yourself.

You're pretty, friend, you just have to help yourself a little. What's wrong with you?

Hello, daughter. Hello, mom, how did it go?

Very well, my love. Hey, i just got paid.

Look, i'm going to give you the money right away. Here.

It's for the pantry expenses for the house and for maría josé. Oh, okay.

Well, yes, that's very good because we have to pay the electricity, the internet, the rent and buy vegetables in the market. Hey, mom, what if we go shopping for groceries together?

Oh, no, karina, no. I have already fulfilled my responsibility to give you the money.

Besides, i can't go with you because i'm going to the huasteca potosina with esteban and i have to pack my suitcase. We're celebrating our one-year anniversary, my love.

- congratulations, mom. - thank you, my love.

Come. Well, don't worry, i'll manage.

- okay? - oh, thank you.

I know i can trust you because you are my right hand. Okay, i'm going to hurry, huh?

See you later. Oh, come on, kari, let me go to iván's party, okay?

Come on. No, i can't.

I received your grades by email and you failed two subjects. So no, you won't go.

Oh, don't you want to see me happy? Iván is my mega crush and i'm sure he's going to hit on me at the party.

Come on, let me go, i want to go. No, maría josé, you won't go.

Your only responsibility is school and you're doing very badly, so no, you're not going and that's it. Well, you don't boss me around.

Who do you think you are? You're my sister, not my mom.

María josé, don't talk to me like that. Yes, i will talk to you like that because you're bitter, i'm going to ask my mom for permission because you're nobody.

Mom, can i go to a party at iván's house? And who is iván?

A classmate from school, my crush. Oh, okay.

And who are you going with? With camila, a friend.

Well, ask karina for permission, you know. What?

But you're my mom, not her. Yes, but that's how things are, maría josé.

Karina is my right hand, you know, so go and ask her for permission. Come with me because if not, she won't let me go.

Please... I already told you you're not going to that party.

You failed two subjects, you're not going. Well, if karina says no, it's no.

She is my right hand and i fully trust her decisions. Oh, please, mom...

You better start studying so you can pass all the subjects and karina gives you the permits you need to go out. Oh, karina, esteban is here for me.

I leave you in charge of the house and maría josé. Remember that you are my right hand.

Goodbye. I hate you.

I hate you. Yes, gaby, you don't know how much it hurts me that maría josé tells me she hates me.

She is everything to me. It shouldn't hurt you, karina, because maría josé is right: you are her sister, not her mother.

You shouldn't worry so much about a sister fight. Because that's what it is, your sister.

Not your daughter. Yes, camila, yes, even if i have to escape from my house, but i'm going to go to ivan's party.

I swear to you. I don't think you should talk to karina like that.

She loves you very much. And i love her, that's why i'm going to apologize to her.

A sunflower for the most beautiful sun in the world. You, miss karina.

Miguel, miguel, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with my students, giving them your class?

Yes, but i escaped a little to bring you this detail and tell you that there are no excuses. Leaving school, we are going to the plaza to eat and i don't accept a no for an answer.

- oh, no, but, miguel... - no, but nothing.

Today you will accept my invitation to eat. I told you that i don't accept a no for an answer.

Ok. I'm going to count the seconds for the time of departure to arrive.

Hello. Oh, you don't know, the seconds seemed eternal to me to see you appear down the hall.

Are we going to eat? - yes, let's go.

- let's go. How did it go?

Good, they were a bit shaky. Really?

Hello. Hello, how are you, miguel?

What are you doing so early here in my classroom? Before the buzzer rings and the children come running in, i came to ask you something.

I came to ask you to be my girlfriend. Yes?

Yes? Please, please, just say yes, karina, come on.

It's just, i don't know, i don't have time for those things, i have to take care of my sister and take care of the house. But taking care of your sister and taking care of your house is your mom's business, not yours.

Well, yes, but i am my mom's right hand. Look, i love that you help your mom and all that, but you have the right to live your life and to be happy and do your things.

Why don't we go for a weekend to valle bravo, at the end of the month? Just you and me.

I swear you'll love it. I don't know.

- yes, yes, yes, yes? - i don't know, i don't know.

Good morning, teacher! Yes, yes, it's okay, it's okay.

Good morning, children. Don't give the teacher gray hairs, huh?

Come on in, good morning, how are you? Good.

Oh, no way, did he really say that to you? Yes, i swear.

Hey, kari, today is payday and well, you got paid today. Do you think you can buy me a blouse that i saw at the mall?

- come on, yes? - oh, majo, for the first time i'm going to have to ask you to wait until the next payday.

What? Why?

Well, i've had other expenses. Okay, but then for the next payday you're not only going to have to buy the blouse i want, but you're also going to have to change this cell phone because it's very old and you've been promising me a new one for a long time.

No, i don't know, i have to think about the cell phone thing. And why do you have to think about it if it's something you promised me?

Just like you promised me to get good grades, maría josé. Until you bring me the new report card with all the passed subjects, until then we'll see about the cell phone.

Are you done yet? Well, of course, yes, poor things, but we're getting there.

- how are you doing? - good...

A flower for the most beautiful flower in the world. Miguel, they're so cool, thank you.

It's not just the detail, i made a reservation for a restaurant that i know you'll love. And it's a yes, huh?

So, let's go. Well, there's no way to deny it.

- let's go. - what do you think.

- oh, are you coming, friend? - of course not, in love, the third wheel is in the way.

I'm so excited to see you together, you look so good. Go eat, go.

Well, see you later, okay? Bye.

Did you go shopping? Yes, i went to buy some things for my trip to valle de bravo.

Ah, okay. So, for you there was money to buy things for your valle de bravo, but not for me for a blouse that i wanted.

- well, i did buy you one. Look, here's the blouse you wanted, so you don't keep telling me.

Who are you going to valle de bravo with? María josé, i have something very important to tell you.

I met someone. I feel very in love with him and his name is miguel.

Ah, and now everyone is going to forget me. My mom with her work and her boyfriend and now you with that miguel guy.

No, no, no, my girl, i promise you that's not going to happen. I promise you.

No, yes, it will happen, because you're going to leave me alone. You're going to leave me alone to go with him to valle de bravo.

No, i don't think you should have a boyfriend and i don't want you to have one. I think it's good that she has one.

Come on. Falling in love gives life.

The only thing i'm going to ask you, karina, is that please don't neglect maría josé for miguel. I entrust her to you a lot, as well as the care of the house.

Don't forget that you are my right hand since your father abandoned us. Relax.

Do you want more? - - thank you.

- you're welcome. Cheers.

To this moment, to you and to our love. - cheers.

- cheers. - the wine is so good.

- it's really good. It's also really good.

You don't know how much i needed this. How does this work?

Where are you, karina? You're always the one who cooks.

This is, this, no, okay, let's see. Okay, got it.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, i burned myself, i burned myself, it hurts a lot. They behave very badly, huh?

There are good days. - few and far between.

- when they don't scream. Karina!

- maría josé, what happened? - karina, sis, i burned myself.

Sis, i burned myself, it hurts a lot. Where are you?

No, i'm going there right now, don't worry, i'm going. What do you mean you're leaving?

Yes, yes, yes, i'm leaving, maría josé needs me, she called me and she needs me, she got burned. Is it serious?

I don't know, miguel. She called me crying and she needs me.

I have to go. All i want to do is grab my things and fly out to go see maría josé.

No, no, no, no, wait, my love, but your mom is at your house, she can help your sister. I take care of maría josé.

Don't make me choose between maría josé and you. I'm always going to choose her, my sister is my responsibility.

What's more, you and i are over. María josé.

Majo, where are you? Majo.

Majo! María josé.

María josé. María josé.

María josé. Karina.

What happened to you? Where's the burn?

Didn't you say you got burned? Oh, yes, i burned myself but then i realized it wasn't that bad.

Did you make me come running from valle de bravo, in the middle of the night, for this? Oh, come on, relax.

I'm fine, relax. How did you break up with miguel?

That's crazy, karina. If you love each other, don't do this to yourself.

It's just that my relationship with maría josé right now is not good at all. I don't want to be angry with her.

You know how important she is to me. Seriously, you're going too far, karina.

María josé is not your daughter. You'll have your own in due time.

You should realize that maría josé is blackmailing you. When it suits her, she acts like she's your daughter and when it doesn't, you're just her older sister.

Seriously, think about it. Recess is over, i'm going to my classroom.

Take your seats, please. Come on in.

To your places, please. Seriously, think about it, please.

Sit down, please. Hello, is anyone home?

I'm here, mom. Chiles en nogada, my love, let's see.

How delicious. Hey, by the way, i just got paid and here's the money for the expenses.

Thanks, mom. How's it going with your boyfriend?

We already broke up. What?

Why? Well, the truth is it was a relationship that was pointless.

It hurts you and that relationship did matter to you. I don't like to see you sad, karina.

My love, you deserve all the happiness in the world because you are a great woman and a great daughter, mm? Come on.

Let me try some more because this turned out... Give me your good side?

We can sell them, my love. Try it.

You shouldn't brag about it. Yes, i am very happy and yes, i brag about it, cami.

I managed to get my sister to leave that miguel guy. I did it.

You shouldn't be like that with karina. She is young and very good to you.

She is your sister and her happiness should make you happy too. Let's see, whose side are you on?

Whose friend are you? Karina's or mine?

- yours. - so?

Look, cami, what i can't handle is the idea that one day karina will stop loving me, that's what i can't handle. - hello.

- hello. Hello and goodbye, i have to go to my classroom to prepare the class.

No, it's still early. Karina, i love you.

You love me. We can't end this like this.

Let's give ourselves another chance. I, i don't have the right to other opportunities, miguel.

I will never be able to leave my sister for anything or anyone. I'm not asking you to leave her, i'm just asking you to give us a second chance.

Before me, there is my sister, miguel. She is my responsibility, so no, there are no other opportunities for us.

There aren't. Virgin, my mother, please, make karina realize that she is not maría josé's mother, that she is her sister and that she also has the right to enjoy life and love.

I beg you, virgin, make her realize. Oh, come on, karina, buy me another new cell phone, please.

Come on, karina, okay? Look, everyone has a better one than mine.

Come on. I already told you yes, i am going to buy it for you, just let me adjust the expenses and save some fortnights.

Until then, i will buy it for you. Oh no, karina.

You can get it on credit and pay it in installments. Come on, okay?

Buy me a new cell phone please. Come on.

Please, karina. I start thinking about it and there is a lot of pressure for karina.

On her shoulders she carries the role of a household responsibility, a role that her mother should be carrying. What karina has told me is that when she was nine years old, her father abandoned them and her mother began to leave them responsibilities for the whole house and her younger sister and to this day it continues.

Her mother took away her childhood and now karina needs a lot of help. Help?

Well, let her be helped, that's what i want. She needs psychological help, because my friend doesn't realize what she is living.

And that is the story of karina and the relationship she has in her house with her mother and her sister and the role she plays, doctor viviana. Most likely, karina is experiencing parentification.

Parentification, doctor? What is that?

Parentification refers to when a child is forced, due to family circumstances, to take on the role of the adult in the family. Becoming responsible for their siblings and sometimes even their parents.

They become the caregivers of the people around them, they grow up with that feeling of responsibility. It steals their stability and of course, their childhood as well.

In fact, they put their own happiness aside, prioritizing the happiness of the people first they consider under their responsibility, which of course it isn't. Yes, this, exactly this is what is happening to karina, doctor, what can i do for her to understand her situation?

Karina needs to take therapy and locate what is her role and responsibility in her sister's life. It's the only way.

Karina, please, honey, listen to me. I think you should give miguel another chance.

Oh, better shut up, don't even give your opinion, you should disappear as you always do. - hey, don't talk to me like that.

I am your mother, maría josé. Oh, as if you were.

Since my dad left, all you've done is focus on your work and your boyfriend esteban. The only one who has taken care of me is my sister.

You have always been an absent mother. Always.

Hello. What are you doing here?

Get out of my house! María josé, that's enough.

Don't talk to miguel like that. I'm here because i don't plan to give up on you, karina.

I just came from seeing a psychologist and i told her your situation and she told me that you have a problem of parentification. Parentification?

And what is that? Parentification is when a child is forced, by family circumstances, to fulfill the role of an adult and take responsibility for their siblings or even for their parents.

They also put aside their own happiness and prioritize the happiness of their siblings. And that's what happens to you, karina.

Oh, now it turns out that we are crazy, right? Get out of my house, you are a "meddler".

Hey, maría josé, enough. Oh, now you come out with "i'm your mother", right?

Too late, don't you think? All i did was lean on karina, who became my right hand.

So that we could get ahead, i had to go to work and i needed someone to help me. That's why karina is always and has been my right hand, so that's it.

No, mom, enough. I'm not your right hand.

I'm your daughter. Just that, mom, i'm fed up, i can't stand it, i can't take it anymore and i'm fed up, i'm fed up.

Love, daughter, karina. Karina!

Karina. Karina, are you okay?

Karina, little sister, call an ambulance. Karina!

How is my daughter, doctor? How is she?

Out of danger. She had a heart attack due to the stress she has lived.

The good thing is that they brought her in time and we were able to save her life. In a moment you can go in to see her.

Only family members. Excuse me.

Thank you very much, doctor, it's okay. Oh, she's okay, she's okay.

Little sister. I felt so much fear of losing you.

I don't want anything bad to happen to you because you are my mommy. The three of us need help, as miguel says, because i am your sister, you are not my daughter, and i am not your mother.

We need help and i'm going to do everything i can to get my daughters back. Because they are my daughters and i love them.

I love them with all my heart. Please, forgive me.

Forgive me. And well, after these months of therapy, how do you feel today?

Very well, doctor. Now i know perfectly the role i have in my house.

The role of a present and not absent mother. The truth is that i justified myself for a long time with the separation from my husband and i left the responsibility to a girl of nine years.

The roles were reversed. Today i realize it.

María josé, my love for you will always be eternal, but from now on our treatment has to be of sisters. I understand and thank you for taking care of me and protecting me, well, for putting aside your happiness for mine.

But you also deserve to be happy, little sister, and my mom too, but without forgetting that she is our mother. I'll never forget it, daughters.

Never. Karina, daughter, forgive me and thank you for everything.

You are free to live your happiness, to live love, to be happy, my love, you are free. Mm?

My daughters. Oh, my daughters.

Come here too. Come, majo, i love you.

- it's a secret between you and me. - yes.

Goodbye, alexa. And behave yourself, okay?

Hello, teacher. Karina, hello.

Hello. I've come to ask you to resume our relationship.

I hope i'm not too late. No, no, no, never, i'm delighted with this request, my love, you are the love of my life.

Sometimes parents forget their obligations and pass them on to their older children, but there is no justification for such a situation. A child does not have the capacity to take the reins of a home and much less to take care of their younger siblings.

So no, parents, there is no justification. There isn't.

A child should live their childhood. Play, run, grow at their own pace, be an adult without any complication or prematurely.

Please, parents, let's avoid overloading actions and obligations on our children, as if they were my right hand. ♪ from the sky a beautiful morning ♪ ♪ from the sky a beautiful morning ♪ ♪ la guadalupana, la guadalupana, ♪ ♪ la guadalupana came down to tepeyac ♪ ♪ juan dieguito the virgin told him, ♪ ♪ juan dieguito the virgin told him ♪ ♪ this hill i choose, this hill i choose, ♪ ♪ this hill i choose to make my altar ♪ ♪ la guadalupana, la guadalupana ♪ ♪ la guadalupana came down to tepeyac ♪