When Bàrbara Mestanza was a teenager, she was "obsessed with her period". "I was fifteen and still hadn't gotten it. I remember changing and the other girls looking at me strangely, I had no breasts, no pubic hair, nothing. I had been going to the doctor for two years to see if there was any problem, and they always said the same thing, it will come. Meanwhile, I prayed every night to wake up the next day and have grown breasts".

Dirty (2023) has been the major success of the young actress, playwright, and director Bárbara Mestanza. A project born from a traumatic personal experience that became a play, a documentary, and a book. "Sucia" (Dirty) was the catharsis, the angry yet defiant cry of a woman who was abused by a masseur without knowing how to react. In her new work, "Cortarse un pie con una motosierra" (Cutting a Foot with a Chainsaw), Mestanza returns to the theme of sexual abuse against women, focusing not so much on the female victims, though that is also present, but on the so-called cancel culture that socially and personally ostracizes aggressors, whether they are guilty or victims of a pariah.