Pasta Negra

Three Venezuelan women cross the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta.

Cast

Lesbia López

as La Abuela / Herminia

Grieber Acosta

as La Madre / Koralia

Mónica Zabaleta

as La Hija / Milagros

Ismael Esteban Castaño

as El Bebé

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