The film, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, is, in many respects, a love letter from the Quintanilla family to the late singer's newer generations of fans.

Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh. The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —“oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha”— soon ripples into genuine laughter, and she giddily kicks her feet. The laughter clubs were based on the common-sense notion that laughter relieves stress.

Fast solar wind and a possible glancing blow from a coronal mass ejection could spark auroras over Christmas.