Mercado Central

There was once a group of Peruvian anarchist poets forced into hiding who, during their secret meetings, sought to assume a non-human identity. Drawing on the famous Persian fable of the same name, the filmmaker translates the power of poetry and friendship into images and sound, serving as def iant stances against the established order.

A group of filmmakers arrives in Santiago de Chuco, a town in the Peruvian highlands where the poet César Vallejo was born. With the excuse of a casting, the filmmakers appropriate the theater and the inhabitants of the place arrive, revealing little by little some lives embraced by the aura of the poet, who died in Paris seventy years ago. All of them, inhabitants and filmmakers, are confused between verses, stories and poetry. Fantasy emerges and characters like the blind Santiago-who rings the bells always warning something-; or the young musician Elder - whose desires loom like a cornucopia-trace a liminal path between fiction and reality.

Eva is a young photographer who seeks to find herself in images. Miguel, a painter who has the magical power to transform the portrait of his clients and offer them what they want to be. Jhonny is a wandering Peruvian vendor who walks through Mexican streets offering stories and memories. These are three stories, about memory, common lives that have a path that unites them, the portrait of who they are and what they want to be.

Short documentary about Lalo Parra Bello, a film director and actor from Ayacucho. Through his story, we discover the filmmakers of a growing industry that, despite its rapid growth, remains largely unknown because it operates far from the capital.