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Wara, a teenager from the Puna, moves to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jujuy. While she is going through uprooting as well as the mourning for the death of her grandmother on her father’s side, questions arise in her that she will solve through a dialogue between her voice and her violin.
A man travels to the Argentine north following the leads of a mythical pre-Columbian entity in charge of the relatives’ sorrow. The roads at night, the inns and the large salina of Zelarayán’s poem reject anthropological shortcuts and build up a mystery that is perhaps as formidable as the very bearer of sorrow.
The film tells the story of Rosa, a tamale maker from the Quebrada de Humahuaca, who invested all her life savings in gold nuggets and suddenly passes away. Her physical disappearance unleashes the madness of her dystopian family, who enter into conflict over the fortune that Rosa left hidden. In the midst of the chaos, Matías, her beloved grandson, must decide whether to escape the madness or embrace his destiny.
