A FANTASTIC WOMAN

Marina is a young transgender lady dwelling in Santiago, Chile who works as a singer and waitress. She is taken to dinner via her boyfriend Orlando, an older man whom she has recently moved in with. That night, Orlando wakes up in a daze and complains he doesn't sense right. Marina prepares to take him to the sanatorium, however he stumbles down a flight of stairs. After driving Orlando to the clinic and checking him in, she is instructed by using a health practitioner that Orlando has died of a mind aneurysm. She runs from the hospital and is then picked up by using police, who force her lower back and demand an reason behind why she left so all at once. Marina speaks to Orlando's brother, Gabo, who allows her to convince the cops of her innocence and lets her take Orlando's vehicle domestic. Marina is contacted with the aid of Sonia, Orlando's ex-wife, and they set up a time for Marina to drop off Orlando's car. She meets with Sonia, who is upfront along with her transphobic emotions in the direction of Marina. rapidly after, Orlando's son Bruno starts offevolved occupying the condominium Orlando owned wherein Marina lives, intent on riding her out. He additionally insists on preserving her canine, Diabla, that Marina tells him Orlando gave her. at the same time as operating, Marina is visited by using a detective. The detective, Antonia, well-knownshows she works in fixing crimes that consist of sexual attack, and become involved by way of the bruises Orlando suffered at some point of his fall. To show her innocence, Marina reviews to the police station and is photographed nude to prove that there has been no bodily alternate among them at the night of Orlando's death. Greeted by using her sister Wanda and Wanda's accomplice Gastón tomorrow, Marina prepares to move out of Orlando's condominium. although they and Sonia warn her now not to, Marina attends Orlando's wake. Upon coming into, Sonia stops the carrier and demands that Marina leave. On her manner out, Gabo follows and apologizes to her. She is later accosted with the aid of Bruno and his pals from a car. His pals snatch her and force her into the automobile. They threaten her and wrap her face in scotch tape, leaving her in an alleyway. Scared and alone, Marina then walks to a homosexual club in which she meets and dances with a boy. She remains with Wanda and Gastón that night. the next morning, she discovers the information of Orlando's funeral inside the newspaper. Her pals warn her to permit it go, and Marina says she might not attend. however, she does go to the funeral domestic after the ceremony takes location. getting into the graveyard, she is confronted by means of Orlando's family who are leaving in their car. whilst they insult her, she climbs on pinnacle of the auto and yells angrily that she wants her canine, Diabla, again. taken aback, they force away. Following an worker into the morgue, she is capable of see Orlando's frame and say good-bye to him before his cremation. Later, Marina is visible taking a run with Diabla. within the last scene, she sings an opera recital to a packed auditorium.