Rosario (2025)

Rosario spends the night with her grandmother's body while she waits for the ambulance to arrive, during a severe snowfall, Rosario is attacked by otherworldly entities that have taken control of her grandmother's body.

We first meet the titular heroine in 1999, when she's celebrating her first communion with her immigrant family in a Brooklyn apartment. Her mother Elena (Diana Lein) is stern and ill; her father Oscar (José Zúñiga) speaks warmly of Rosario's future as their collective dream. Her grandmother Griselda (Constanza Gutierrez), who is presented as off-puttingly shifty and who conceals maggots in her room, clearly isn't as Catholic as the rest of them. She's a practitioner of Palo, the true nature of which neither we nor Rosario learn until much later.

We jump ahead to the present, when Rosario (Emeraude Toubia) has found success in finance, living the dream her father had for her. All day, she has ignored many phone calls from her grandmother, but when she finally picks up, she gets the building superintendent (Paul Ben-Victor) instead. Griselda has died. Seeing as she's undocumented, with no will, it's best if a relative can be there when her body is collected.