A succession of mysteries are repeatedly ordered and observed. A ritual for creating meaning. Dreaming, a daily exercise in the free interpretation of reality.

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.

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.

On December 18, 2005, Evo Morales was elected President of Bolivia. For the first time in history, an Indian reached a position of power in the country. The planters in the Chapare region have consolidated a sound organisation in support of planting coca leaf, a sacred plant of great cultural and economic relevance. Today, the coca planters participate actively in the national political arena, where the values of traditional native culture and contemporary social movements converge.

A compilation of Columbian film heritage material relating to indigenous communities. Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano.Colección Acevedo (1932 -1948) , Marco Tulio Lizarazo (Guerrillero Guadalupe Salcedo, 1953).

In 2005, due to historical debts that the Columbian government had failed to honor, the Cauca indigenous movement was forced to return to its strategy of occupying Haciendas. In the occupation of the Hacienda El Japio, an indigenous man was murdered and many others were tortured by the forces sent by the government of Alvaro Uribe Velez.