Our take
Demons at Dawn is a Mexican drama about two young men who meet in Mexico City and fall in love while pursuing dance and education goals. Expect a character-driven romance with everyday urban struggles rather than action-heavy set pieces
Uplifting themes
Friendship, love, and chasing creative goals anchor this LGBTQ coming-of-age story
Story (may spoil tone)
Orlando and Marco, two young men who live in Mexico City, meet by chance and fall in love. Every day they fight in order to achieve their dreams: Orlando wants to be a dancer and Marco wants to graduate from nursing school. As they go against a diverse, ever-changing, hostile world, they’ll learn that once the darkness of night is gone and through their intertwined bodies and their synchronized souls, they will have seen all those demons of dawn go by.