Erick Aeschlimann

In the middle of the Atacama Desert is the last saltpetre settlement still inhabited. Known as Maria Elena, its inhabitants are reluctant to leave it behind, clinging to their memory and to their dead.

"Why are we Colombians who live in Antofagasta afraid?" Filmmaker Angélica Valverde seeks to answer this question by reconstructing her experience in this city, with Rafaela and Carmenza, immigrant women who, like she, came to the north of Chile to realize their dreams. To try to overcome it, to observe how each copes with the fear, this rejection produced.