Los Frutos de la Muerte follows two estranged, Guatemalan half-sisters cleaning up a deceased tía Adela’s apartment to avoid a huge fine. Ixq’anil, a janitor, wants to chemically clean the place because they don’t know what killed Adela. Isabela, a curandera, wants to cleanse the space with herbs so they don’t disturb her aunt’s spirit.
As the fight gets to a rotten place, they unearth an old journal with extensive properties of various fungi intertwined with their family histories, upending the family history they knew. Will they finish the task in time without killing each other? And where is that smell coming from?
