Blessed with a photographic memory and an artist’s soul, 14-year-old Segundo is set to follow in the footsteps of his renowned father Noe (Amiel Cayo), a master craftsman whose richly detailed story-boxes, or retablos, fetch high prices at the local marketplace in their small isolated Quechua village. But when Segundo discovers his anguished father’s long-hidden secret, the young artist’s world is quickly turned inside out, transforming him into a simmering storm of anger, confusion and growing disillusionment with his village’s provincial way of thinking, where brutality isn’t far behind. When a misstep puts the family’s secret out in the open, it forces a reckoning between Segundo and his beleaguered mother Anatolia (Magaly Solier, also in the Festival in Lina From Lima) in this powerful, deeply absorbing feature debut from writer/director Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and the Ibero-American Award

Writer/director Alvaro Delgado Aparicio is expected to be in attendance on January 5 and 7.