In a Colombian state, a distressed group of indigenous people under the white man pressure (army, paramilitary and guerrilla), meet together to ask the "bunachi" (white man) to live them alone.

When night falls, the Colombian countryside undergoes a transformation. Danger lurks in the dark. Carmen, a peasant woman in her fifties, knows it well. This film finds the right distance to absorb her tale of a tormented life, while drawing the audience into the harsh world of the Colombian peasant through one of its most fascinating aspects: the oral tradition.