Gabriela Paterito

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

Seven Kawésqar still live in Puerto Edén. They are the last descendants of a nomadic people who inhabited the southern sea of Chile. Juan Carlos Tonko, together with his mother Gabriela, his wife Carolina, and three of his children, embarks on a voyage to the lands of his childhood to repeat the initiation rite as a hunter for Tomás, his youngest son, which will guide him into adulthood and also to Kawésqar survival in the archipelagos.