La Manuela is a film about exile and self-reinvention. In August 2015, Manuela Picq Lavinas, a Franco-Brazilian journalist and university professor, was arrested at a demonstration in Quito, Ecuador. That same night, her work visa was revoked, and she was taken to a detention center. She had to leave Ecuador, the country where she had lived for the past ten years, leaving behind her home, her work, and her love story.

Manuela Picq Lavinas