Liz, a closeted medical student in the Dominican Republic, is still haunted by the violent death of her girlfriend, Wendy. Convinced that the killings around her may be rooted in homophobia, she hides further inside a conventional life, dating a man and trying not to draw attention to herself.

When Liz joins her boyfriend and friends on a weekend trip, the group’s easy familiarity gradually gives way to unease. A new connection awakens feelings she has tried to suppress, while suspicion and hostility begin to surface among the people closest to her. What begins as a road trip becomes a tense portrait of a community governed by fear, where safety depends on fitting in and being seen can carry a brutal price.

Victoria Linares Villegas is a Dominican filmmaker whose work explores identity, memory and queer experience in the Dominican Republic. She directed the short film My Mother Resents Me and the feature documentaries It Runs in the Family, which premiered at True/False in 2022, and Ramona, which premiered at the Berlinale in 2023. Don’t Come Out (No Salgas) is her first fiction feature and premiered in the Generation 14plus section of the 2026 Berlinale.