Three Queens

Tres Reinas is a heartfelt, high-energy comedy about what it costs to come home—and what it takes to finally be seen there.

Marisol is a queer Puerto Rican woman in her thirties who has built a full life in San Francisco: she produces drag shows, she has a chosen family she would die for, and she has not been back to Puerto Rico in over a decade.

When a family emergency calls her home to Canóvanas just before Three Kings Day, she brings her three drag performer besties—Valentina, Coco, and Benito—for moral support. The plan is simple: tone it down, survive the visit, and get back to the Bay in one piece. The plan falls apart immediately. Her grandfather Johnny, a stubborn, dreaming, deeply lovable man, has been pouring his life savings into an unfinished restaurant on an empty lot for twenty years. Her mother Ivonne has spent that same time building walls so thick they look like skin. And the town's beloved Three Kings Day festival—the economic and cultural heart of the neighborhood—is about to be shut down by the city. Marisol and her besties do what they do best: they make magic. They transform Johnny's concrete lot into a stage, rally the neighborhood, and throw the most spectacular Three Kings Day celebration Canóvanas has ever seen.

But the real story is what happens in the margins: Johnny and Coco discovering they share the same history of survival and refusal. Valentina finding in Puerto Rico the community she never had. Benito learning that the salsa step he's been avoiding is actually in his body. And Marisol, finally, in fuchsia heels and a handmade crown, standing in front of her mother and refusing to make herself small.

Tres Reinas is To Wong Foo meets The Birdcage & Encanto—a film about the radical act of bringing your full self home, and the discovery that your community has been waiting for exactly that.