Soul of the Desert

After his wife is murdered, Innis decides to take the law into his own hands. But as he comes closer to catching the man that killed his wife, Innis discovers the dark side of justice and finds the will to never look back.

A transgender woman in a small indigenous community in Colombia, Georgina counters the hostility directed at her with the words, ‘I have only love’.

The happy summer atmosphere on the beach in the downtown area of the Colombian city of Cartagena is rudely disrupted by bulldozers and excavators dumping huge boulders in the surf. The work is to combat the dangers of rising sea levels caused by global climate change. To protect the coastline, this part of the beach will soon have to close: no more sunbeds and parasols, no more jet skis, no more seaside fun and games. But what are the regular visitors, beach vendors and lifeguards supposed to do now?

Pellito lives in a small caribbean town in Colombia. Abandoned by his wife, with no job or money, he lives “cursed." On his 63rd birthday, Antonia, one of his neighbors, buys him a ticket for the fortune’s raffle, an almost surreal lottery that comes into town with all sorts of items: a stove, a fridge, a tv, a pressure cooker, a fan, two rocking chairs, bottles of rum and two chickens. To his and everyone in town´s surprise, Pellito´s ticket is the winner. The neighbors organize a big party and pellito celebrates the return of his luck, but after much celebration, dance and drinks, he will confirm the saying: from luck and death no one is safe.