This film is a novel. The landscape welcomes us and devours us whole. The northern Argentinian countryside, its summer storms, its dusty roads, its deep green trees. A novel of initiation wherein, at the age of nine, our main character devours the world with his wide and eager eyes, undergoes its first assaults upon him, and learns to protect himself from it. Another child of eleven steals our hearts and brings us to tears with a bravery that is the stuff of books. The parents are absent, the children have to struggle; we see the world from their eyes, immense and threatening, imposing and sublime all at once. Rain falls on their forgotten village, the feverish child falls asleep. The farewell prayer breaks the carefree attitude and reminds us that the torments of the child who grew up too fast will, alas, resist the departure of the beloved friend. It’s a film of such beauty that you'll close your eyes to keep its final images close within.

Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk's Artistic Director