Petricor

Petricor

What is left when there is nothing left?

2016 · 15 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Western

In the near future where civil war is the order of the day and strange diseases are devastating, a boy lives alone in the house that his parents left him. Away from the surrounding chaos, he survives day by day from what the countryside gives him, until one day a strange girl interrupts her nighttime sleep, altering her daily life.

Directed by Daniel Borges · Written by Camilo Argimón

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