Halley (2012): Cast & Plot

Beto, a night-shift security guard at a 24-hour gym, wants to quit his job because he is sick. What he doesn’t reveal is that his sickness is actually death, a secret that grows harder to hide as days pass. He spends his nights watching others do what he cannot—people pushing through workouts, a woman applying bright makeup on a bus, and a baby contentedly eating ice cream—longing for a normal life he no longer seems able to lead. To conceal his rapidly decomposing body, he layers on drab makeup and cheap perfume, injects himself with embalming fluid, and methodically picks maggots from his sores. This grim, intimate routine becomes a fragile shield that keeps the fear of his condition at bay.