Dali and her eight-year-old son Pepe take a vacation to Acapulco with Dali’s boyfriend, Chavez. Instead of bringing them closer, their beach holiday brings out things in each of them that threaten to pull this emerging family apart.

Filled with moments of sorrow and nostalgia, as well as humour and tenderness, Semana Santa illustrates the conundrum life often presents: being surrounded by beauty sometimes makes our melancholy more pronounced.