S1.E1 ∙ The Cheddar Ripper

A tradition in Port Lavaca, TX after the annual homecoming football game. Hundreds of the high school students congregate to either join in or spectate the fun (and agony) of drinking a gallon of milk with a partner and racing 60 yards to beat all other contestants.

I think I am going bald. Everyday it becomes ever more obvious. This is a testament of three generations - the secrets kept behind closed bathroom doors.

Even in a country torn apart by war, there is still time for love - and drunkenness - and practical jokes - and mistaken identity - and cross dressing - and cross garters! It's Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy in a new and original setting.

'El Bella Vista' is the story of a house started as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel and changes at last to a Catholic Chapel, all in a small conservative village in Uruguay. Two transvestites, one brothel's Madame, a brickmaker, ex football player, and a nun will bring to life this battle for control of a single physical space, home to mutually antagonistic institutions, driven by the same motivation: passion.