René Calpanchay

A man travels to the Argentine north following the leads of a mythical pre-Columbian entity in charge of the relatives’ sorrow. The roads at night, the inns and the large salina of Zelarayán’s poem reject anthropological shortcuts and build up a mystery that is perhaps as formidable as the very bearer of sorrow.

Wara, a teenager from the Puna, moves to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jujuy. While she is going through uprooting as well as the mourning for the death of her grandmother on her father’s side, questions arise in her that she will solve through a dialogue between her voice and her violin.