Fernando Bacilio

A boy hits a nest while playing around some trees. He asks for help to an older man whose intentions are different than the child imagined.

Haunted by her recent past, a police lieutenant investigates a mysterious case known as 'The Sugar Girl': the appearance of a young girl in a city hotel. Although the authorities do not take the case seriously, the lieutenant suspects there is something deeper hidden, unaware that a macabre truth lies beneath.

To pay off a debt, Ramiro (40), a math teacher, moves to a run-down neighborhood. There, he's presented with the chance to make easy money, and seizing this opportunity, he plunges into an unfamiliar world where his principles and ideals will be put to the test.

Julius is an upper-class boy in Lima in the 1940s. He lives in a palace with his aristocratic family and extensive servants. As the years go by, Julius will gradually lose his innocence, discovering and never understanding an adult world full of inequalities and injustices.

Constantino Zegarra is a principled Peruvian government official who stands apart from his corrupt colleagues. Throughout his two-decade career, he has steadfastly resisted corruption, driven by the memory of his father's impoverished end due to corruption. At forty, he is a dedicated family man with a teenage daughter who challenges his views. One morning, he survives a gunshot to the throat, rendering him mute. Upon recovery, he is certain that someone from his office attempted to kill him.

Mel is a photographer who preferably takes pictures of trees, used hotel rooms after sexual encounters and the streets of her hometown Trujillo. After her mother dies, she learns about a large debt she has left her. In an exhibition about her city, which she has organized with some colleagues, her picture catches the attention of a woman whom Mel has already come across in her photographic expeditions on the streets. They develop a special connection while accompanying each other through their days, wandering in a black and white Trujillo.

For Renzo, a teenager from Trujillo, Peru, the days pass by on the streets and skateboard runways where he tries to master new tricks on his board. Until fate leads him to meeting Zoe, a girl who spends her afternoons drawing the dozens of telephone antennaes that cut across the city sky, and his life transforms almost imperceptibly.

Reina, a victim of human trafficking, escapes and goes in search of her family. Juan, a fugitive from justice, decides to help her. Their search for Reina's family takes them to a remote region in the Peruvian Amazon, plagued by crime and greed.