Plot

The lonely Estrella is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone in school or at home, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and Vampire. Angela has an unresolved trauma and has kink sex with strangers in the hospital or with the gatekeeper of her building. When a detective meets Angela and tells her that a man that raped her had not died as she thought, the frightening Angela gets Estrella at the bus stop and once at home she prepares a pizza for them. However, Estrella invites her friend Vampire to join them, and when Angela sees her daughter's friend, she feels scary, haunted by her past.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Estrella, a girl of ten, has lived alone with her mother Angela since her father died when she was very small. She is a lively and sociable child, but she spends a lot of time alone at home. Too much.

Estrella enjoys fantasy and horror stories and, in order to exorcise the fear that the "big monsters" cause her, she makes friends with them: she gives them a body, talks to them, they go to school with her, they protect her...

One day, Estrella makes friends with a new companion, a vampire. But could it be that this "friend" is not merely a product of the girls imagination?.