For her second feature, Sotomayor reached for a looser, improvisational structure and style, collaborating with her small cast and crew on an open script that was collectively written day by day on location and that incorporated chance events as they unfolded around them. As in Thursday Till Sunday, a road trip launches Mar, this time with a young and awkwardly attached couple traveling to a family vacation house in an Argentine resort town. The arrival of the man’s rowdy mother further destabilizes the couple and raises the stakes of their vacation and big decisions they keep avoiding. Maintaining a markedly distanced camera and perspective, Sotomayor’s restrained film carefully observes the dynamic at work in the relationships between mother and son and between the couple, capturing both their barely expressed affection and the flashes of unvarnished raw emotion that punctuate their tense time together.