A Beautiful Secret

The story takes place in Mexico City in 1984. Esperanza is an old woman living alone. She keeps to herself in an old house. Jorge is a rebellious teenager. His friends set him a dare. He is to sneak into the woman’s house. Jorge gets inside and is caught. What he expects does not happen. Esperanza does not throw him out. An odd friendship begins between the two of them. She talks to him about the worth of a life. She tells him what friendship is and what it means to stand by a belief. Their conversations take in people and society. Years later Jorge is a grown man. He remembers those days in flashback. The film became the last screen role of Katy Jurado. Katy Jurado and Ana de la Reguera appear in the hundred and thirty minute film, a Mexican production Leopoldo Laborde finished in 2002.