Based on a true story, "Guillermina" is a film that reconstructs the memories of the trace left in a 9-year-old child, the son of a well-to-do family in Havana in the 1940s, his wet-nurse, a black woman named Guillermina.
Anna Borges do Sacramento, an 18th-century enslaved woman in Brazil, is retold through the stories of Afro-Brazilian women, bringing her determination to freedom into the present.
An enslaved girl of about 15 years old ran away from the plantation where she lived and her master, after an unsuccessful search, placed an advertisement in the newspaper offering a reward to whoever found her.