Ernesto Jara Vargas

Each fishing trip lasts a month and Elí's body accumulates the illness inherited from those hard days. Your body is another gear that wears out little by little. The sea, however, always calls him, it has become the refuge of a life on land that is increasingly alien. The strange omen of a liberating shipwreck becomes darker and more disturbing when Elí finds no alternative for his son but to offer him the same fate.

Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, 1948. Four days before Christmas, Setico a 12-year-old boy must take a train in search of his father. A trip that will reveal the forgotten memories of this banana enclave and the murder of six political prisoners in a place known as Devil's Elbow.