Retiro [Retreat] is a rendering, in prose and performance, of the life and memories of Gloria, the artist’s own mother, through interviews, rushes, and reenactments staged by Lassalle-Morillo herself. We explore the intimate notions of memory and inheritance as the work links three, and more, generations of women in Lassalle-Morillo’s family together across space and time. Upon her grandmother’s death, Lassalle-Morillo interviews her mother about memories of her youth, aging, grief, and her outlook on the future. Gloria had narrative authorship of the script since the film’s focus was not its veracity, but rather how she decided to rewrite this memory. Set in their shared domestic space, Retiro is a negotiation between facts and the process of drawing truth out of memories in different stages of decomposition and at different perceptions of importance.