Catalina Botero

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Camilo is a young man burdened with the grief of loss and absence. Hand in hand with Sol, whom he feels attracted to, he finds an apparent relief for his pain inside a religious cult to which she’ part of . However, the contradictions of the cult make Camilo realize that, in order to find peace “with himself” , he must distance from everyone including Sol.