La Hacienda

Synopsis

Katrina and Emmanuel have lost a baby six months earlier when her parents, affluent travelers, hire Emmanuel to renovate a hacienda in Mexico. They reluctantly go. Arriving, it's the Day of Dead, locals picnic in graveyards to remember those who've died. Katrina and Emmanuel start to experience haunting. Katrina is chased by the Mistress of the hacienda during the Mexican revolution and Emmanuel by the young servant girl who is raped by the Master of the hacienda. They also see a woman, who's supposedly the oldest in Mexico, with a dark past. She is daughter of the Master and the young servant girl, he raped. Lights randomly go on and off. A box of children's toys appear. A group of workers, hired to renovate the property, quit after a worker falls to his death, another worker claiming someone pushed him off a scaffolding. Another set of workers show up the next day, to resume the project. No one is sure where these ew works came from. An old Mexican-style Music Box plays randomly. All of these happenings make Katrina realize she has crippling grief about her lost baby. She keeps seeing the apparition of The Mistress in the hacienda's main house. Katrina feels like she's losing her mind because no one around her is experiencing what she's experiencing. Hector, one of the replacement workers, calls her Katrina; The Goddess of the Underworld. In Mexican culture, Catrina is the name of this symbol. Tension builds with Emmanuel and his father-in-law, who has always thought his daughter made a mistake with him. He isn't "white" and he's 7 years older. Emmanuel and Katrina grieve their baby. His in-laws give away the property. Emmanuel and Katrina make love, after months of emotional isolation. The spirit of The Master is slowly taking possession of Emmanuel's body. The Mexican Revolutionaries storm the property, wanting to hang The Master, now Emmanuel.. The ending is unclear, did Emmanuel hang himself or did the soldiers kill him. The property, literally and figuratively, is a bloody mess.