Andrés Davila

Inspired by the name of an oil town in Texas, Sour Lake was the name given by Texaco in the sixties to a small town in the Ecuadorian jungle, known in Spanish as Lago Agrio. This name underlies the framework that builds the film: from the surroundings of this city to the Colombian Andes, where the jungle vegetation merges with the mountains.

Barranca travels with his mariachi band to a remote town with the mission of offering a serenade. With no more clue than a voice mail from the client who forgot to give him the address and the name of the woman to whom they should sing, Barranca starts a desperate search through all the village.

A young woman recalls memories of an indigenous person from Nudo de los Pastos, between Ecuador and Colombia, and reflects on the pollution that threatens her land.

In the Sibundoy Valley, Mercedes Cuatindioy cultivates her chagra as an act of resistance and remembrance. Between seeds and polyculture practices, her life embodies the transmission of indigenous knowledge threatened by oblivion.

Sol, a bitter music teacher, and Camilo, a young blind man who dreams of being a pianist, run a makeshift academy for students with disabilities.