Sheldon Schiffer

Curtis, an American looking for an escape to a foreign land, joins his estranged Brazilian biologist brother Francis on a spontaneous journey to find a rare jungle beetle in the Amazon. While hiking, Curtis is bitten by a snake. As he enters a venom induced hallucinogenic dream the two brothers are captured as slaves by a fantasy tribe of Amazonian women, and given to the tribal queen. With the aid of another slave, Curtis must plot a rescue of Francis and their escape, unless he finds his new situation better than the life he left behind.

Dina (Marilyn Sanabria), a writer, and her boyfriend Ira (Amir Kovacs) move in together when their plans gets interrupted. Love should inspire compromise, right? At least until Ira's ugly lamp becomes more than just a light.

Are machismo, infidelity and violence inseparable? When filmmaker Sheldon Schiffer tears off the veils of silence in his Nicaraguan immigrant family, he uncovers the scars left on his mother, aunt and grandmother by his enigmatic grandfather. In a tragically common family saga, Schiffer reflects on his legacy and reexamines what it means to be a man.