Pepita the Gunslinger

Marga jobber som sexarbeider for en voldelig hallik. Hun er gravid. Sexarbeidere i distriktet der de jobber blir drept, og frykt sprer seg blant dem. Marga starter derfor en egen klubb der jentene føler seg tryggere. Klubben går godt, men samtidig får hun flere mektige fiender.

Da huset hennes og familien hennes blir angrepet, forsvarer de seg med våpen. Marga påtar seg all skylden og blir en legende, Pepita the Gunslinger.

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A neo-noir thriller based on real events in an Argentine port city in the mid-1980s.

Marga works as a sex worker for a violent pimp. She is pregnant. Sex workers in the district where they work are being murdered, and fear is spreading among them. Marga therefore starts her own club, where the girls feel safer. The club does well, but she also makes several powerful enemies.

When her house and her family are attacked, they defend themselves with weapons. Marga takes all the blame and becomes a legend: Pepita the Gunslinger.