Mauricio Franco Tosso

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death reigns, places where everything is already lost, where appeal is not possible. A walk in search of the meaning of death that is actually a celebration of life and the living.

The highest peaks of the mountains rage rise above the clouds. The high mountains rage of the mountains rise above the clouds. Sometimes they seem to merge with the sky. There is no god and neither there is devil. We are in the heights of the Peruvian Andes, more than 5000 meters above sea level, where Celestino a peasant hermit undertakes a healing journey with his cow Samichay, from the loneliness and height of the Andes to the chaos of urbanization and villages.

He couldnt sleep. She couldnt stop thinking. In the meantime their passion dissipated. With this premise begins the story of this couple. Life has passed before them without realizing it. The practice has led to a loop where today are like two strangers.

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Maybe all things can be divided, maybe most things have a half. Here is a country that has two halves, insoluble, heterogeneous; two halves that were born together and refuse despite the fact that nothing separates them, only a «wall» an enormous border that leads nowhere on both sides. In Peru there are several walls, some real and some imaginary, that divide, care for and segregate. Somewhere in Lima Peru there is another wall. Here the population is divided into those who can and those who cannot. A wall of approximately 10 kilometers divides the wealthiest area with one of the poorest cities in the city.

Peru, 2020. The pandemic closed the borders, shut down the skies and plunged us into an infinite pause. Three years without sun, trapped in a static routine. But although the streets were deserted and silence covered the city, traffic never stopped.

Ousmane Sow is an immigrant of Senegalese origin in Madrid, fully established and with documents in order, which allows him to get a job and reside legally in Spain, unlike many of his compatriots. Despite this, the social fracture that exists between the daily struggle for survival and personal fulfillment has him tied to precarious jobs.