Lipstick
Marta is a young, single, professional woman who lives a modest and uneventful life contained by the rhythm of her job and obligations.
The casual reappearance of an old lipstick, which falls on to the snow white basin, staining it a passionate red leaves her strangely disturbed. With the force of a hypnotic attraction the sight of the lipstick pushes Marta through a door long forgotten to a place where fragments of her old life still survive.
Like a beacon lit at night the lipstick seems to have a life if itÂ’s own and stirs in MartaÂ’s memory a series of images and sensations that reveal an aspect of her character unusually free, expressive, and transgressive.
Pretty soon the vision of the “new” Marta entwines with’ the real Marta and the reckless ambiguity of the first contaminates the apparent integrity of the other upsetting her equilibrium.
Marta slides adrift in her consciousness more and more fascinated by the evocative attraction of the lipstick till she reaches the darkest most private part of herself which she had thought closed and long forgotten and is now forced to confront.