{"id":28283,"date":"2025-09-02T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/projects\/la-noche-sera-negra-y-blanca\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:19:03","slug":"la-noche-sera-negra-y-blanca","status":"publish","type":"articulo","link":"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/en\/projects\/la-noche-sera-negra-y-blanca\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Will Be Black and White (La noche ser\u00e1 negra y blanca)"},"template":"","art_tag":[894,802,1310,704,1002,1028,1190,1054,1060,1098,878],"genero":[47],"licencia":[17],"localizacion":[],"produccion":[],"subgenero":[654,1417],"tipo":[5],"class_list":["post-28283","articulo","type-articulo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","art_tag-dysfunctional-family","art_tag-existential-crisis","art_tag-generational-conflict","art_tag-love","art_tag-maternity","art_tag-mexico-en","art_tag-old-age","art_tag-past","art_tag-paternity","art_tag-redemption","art_tag-usa","genero-drama-en","licencia-propia","subgenero-melodrama-en","subgenero-womens-fiction-en-2","tipo-proyecto"],"acf":{"generos_tax":[47],"subgeneros_tax":[654,1417],"tipo_tax":[5],"tags_tax":[704,1310,802,878,894,1002,1028,1054,1060,1098,1190],"produccion_tax":false,"licencia_tax":17,"localizacion_tax":false,"articulo__titulo_extendido":"","articulo__extracto":"","articulo__contenido":"<b><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">After receiving a call from her father asking to see her again, a Mexican journalist reconstructs her family\u2019s history, marked by trauma and inherited violence. In the process, she discovers in writing a path toward healing and personal redemption. A deep and moving family drama from the acclaimed author Socorro Venegas.<\/span><\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n<i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Andrea, a Mexican journalist, receives an unexpected call from her father Bernardo after ten years of absence. He asks her to travel to Denver to see him, plunging her into memories of a childhood marked by her father\u2019s alcoholism and the accidental death of her younger brother Gabriel. Her mother, cold and distant, gives her clothes to take with her, hinting that her father is close to death.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Before traveling to the United States, Andrea visits her grandmother Paz in San Luis Potos\u00ed to better understand her father\u2019s past. Her grandmother reveals how Bernardo was traumatized in childhood by his own father, a violent butcher who forced him to participate in animal slaughter. These experiences would later explain his alcoholism and his inability to build a stable family.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">At the same time, Andrea maintains conversations with Eugenio Mill\u00e1, a writer suffering from cancer, who encourages her to write about her family history as a form of catharsis. Mill\u00e1, a cynical yet perceptive man, shares his own reflections on love and death while confronting his terminal illness.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Upon arriving in Denver, Andrea finds her father aged and fragile, but sober. During their reunion, they revisit old memories, particularly their shared love of Bruce Lee films, which represent some of the few happy moments of her childhood. Bernardo confesses that he worked as a butcher in the United States, unknowingly repeating his family\u2019s cycle of violence. Andrea gives him a short story she wrote about his life, imagining his traumatic youth. 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