Logline: A pregnant scientist must undo an ancestral curse that threatens to kill her and her unborn child.

Synopsis: In 1960s Puerto Rico, an old BRUJA (witch) seeks the help of a skilled MIDWIFE (40s) to deliver her daughter’s baby. The Midwife refuses. But her daughter, a YOUNG MIDWIFE in training (19), follows the Bruja to her cabin in the forest. LUISA, the Bruja’s daughter, is grateful to Amalia and gifts her a necklace with a BLACK STONE. Luisa dies in childbirth. The devastated Bruja curses Amalia and her entire lineage. In modern-day Chicago, ISABEL, is pregnant after a late-term miscarriage. Isabel is a scientist who researches how trauma changes the genetic expression in the DNA of individuals who experience it and generations that follow. In her third trimester of pregnancy, Isabel is plagued by nightmares and sleepwalking that leads her into strange and dangerous circumstances. She encounters the spirit of Luisa, the long-dead daughter of the Bruja,  and mistakes her for one of the subjects of her research project. Luisa runs away but leaves behind the necklace with the black stone. Isabel chases after the apparition and finds herself in a hospital.  AMALIA, the Young Midwife – now in her 70s, is the grandmother who raised Isabel. Amalia recognizes the black stone necklace but cannot tell Isabel about the curse due to her shame and fear. Unable to retrieve the truth from her grandmother, Isabel follows her instincts and the spirit of a young woman who haunts her to rural Puerto Rio in the hopes of saving herself and her unborn child.

I Don’t Dream In Spanish Anymore is a narrative feature film that blends horror and magical realism to tell the story of a woman, her grandmother, and the desperate attempt to undo a familial curse and break the silence surrounding trauma.