Rosa Chávez Yacila in conversation with Andrea Lerner

The key to the stories collected in Las nerviosas by Rosa Chávez Yacila (Peru) is the transmission of an affliction inherited from generation to generation among the women of the same family; a nervous condition that is not only an illness, but an emotional and social burden transmitted through silence, fear, repression and the expectations imposed on women. They will talk to Andrea Lerner.