Mature women speak about their marriage, their first time, their intimate relationship with sexuality. In the repetition of these ancestral rituals, the director questions her own absence of marriage, of children, and thereby, a chain of mother-daughter relationships that is extinguishing.
«Southern Brides has been in my head for years. I have always been fascinated by everything related to the ritual of marriage, the traditional narrative of eternal heterosexual love, the surrender, and how all of this is staged. Above all, the image of the bride: a woman dressed in white, presumed to be a virgin, and who is going to give herself to a man.»
– Elena López Riera
