She works in a sewing factory with her mother, Julia (Cuervos), who is enamored with the drunk and abusive Antonio (León) and ignores her three children.

After the youngest, Manuel (Pimentel), witnesses Antonio rape Julia, Ana debates taking revenge on the man who has ruined her family.

[5] The Hollywood Reporter writes that "unusually for a Venezuelan movie, there is little direct social comment, and only the most oblique criticism of the wider conditions that have made this family so desperately screwed-up".

After Villa del Cine announced funding for low-budget fiction films in 2011, the brothers applied and were able to tell a similar story as a drama with Breach in the Silence.

[6] The research and writing of the film is said to have taken six months and involved the Venezuelan Association of the Deaf.