Archivo negro: Sombras del crimen

Behind the dark, sensuous and almost hallucinatory images, a grim story is smouldering about a school teacher and social activist, who after a questionable trial was convicted for killing four police officers in a Mexican province.

At 7 p.m. he had an appointment...an important appointment.

How Alejandro, an artisan, and Kiara, his seven-year-old daughter, live in a small rented room in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico.

In the period between 1988 and 1989, a well known radio reporter in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, killed a girl of four years, shocking the town folks. Exergo is the experimental exploration of such events, based on real police archives.

When meeting the madness of a woman searching for her dead mother, and a young man, who is caring an abandoned house, it can lead to the most horrific metaphysical feeling or the most unusual incoherence.