Lali is a young Afro-Mexican American woman living in the aftermath of loss. Eight years after her mother's death in a mass shooting, she feels adrift—from her body, her sense of home, and the future she once imagined.
Before her mother's death, dance rooted in African and folkloric traditions connected Lali to her mother, her cultures, and to herself. After, movement goes quiet with the rise of her sense of internal displacement.
Defying her father's ultimatum, Lali embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across Mexico, tracing an incomplete itinerary her mother left behind. Her journey is shaped by the people she meets along the way: an Indigenous woman whose quiet strength offers grounding, a deported U.S. veteran who understands the loss of home and the afterlife of violence, and communities rooted in Indigenous and Afro-Mexican history.
The journey culminates in Yanga, the first free Black town in the Americas—a place where ancestry is lived rather than remembered, and inheritance is not lost but carried forward. As she uncovers this buried history of resistance, she discovers a path back home to herself—and the legacy of dance she thought she'd lost.
Where I Live is an intimate, BIPOC female-led drama about grief, displacement, and belonging—told with restraint, emotional precision, and an embodied sense of place.
