Lali is a young Afro-Mexican American woman living in the aftermath of loss. Years after her mother's death, she feels unmoored — from her body, her sense of home, and the future she once imagined.
When she chooses to leave Los Angeles and travel through Mexico, the 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.
Before loss, dance rooted in African and folkloric traditions connected Lali to her mother and her cultural world; after, it becomes something she must slowly relearn. As the journey unfolds, memory shifts from something she avoids to something she inhabits.
The journey leads to Yanga, the first free Black town in the Americas — a place where ancestry is lived rather than remembered. Here, Lali begins to understand inheritance not as something lost, but something carried forward.
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.
