Alvaro Sarmiento

Maribel and Carmencita are two indigenous girls who work in Cuzco Central Square, taking pictures with the tourists in exchange of a tip. Leon, Maribel's father does not have a regular job, which causes fights with Ines, his wife and the rest of the family.

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They have the power of the Apus! They live at more than 16,000 fasml since centuries! But their culture is in danger by the mining.

Early every morning, young Jorge harvests bananas with his machete. After breakfast back in his village, he wanders with his friends in the lush wilderness around the Amazon headwaters. Childhood could hardly be more carefree or peaceful.

Cargo boats form a non-lieu, a space of transition for the traveler staking journeys that can last days, as well as for the indigenous communities living on the edges of the Amazon River, fighting for the survival of their cultural traditions and struggling to adapt to modernity.

The city of Cerro de Pasco, with approximately 80,000 inhabitants, is being steadily encroached upon by mining, which has generated a series of socio-environmental impacts. The Volcan mining company seeks to expand its operations, which will require displacing an old part of the city, at the cost of destroying historical monuments and thus damaging local identity.