In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.

José Calcina
as Virginio

Luisa Quispe
as Sisa

Santos Choque
as Clever

Félix Ticona
as Estanis

Placide Ali
as Eugenia

Candelaria Quispe
as Elena

René Calcina
as Mototarista

René Pérez
as Callawaya

Jorge Yucra Nogales
as Doctor

Juan Carlos Calcina
as Conductor Camión
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Living a subsistence existence almost 10,000 feet into the Central Andes, the ageing llama tending “Virginio” (José Calcina) and his wife “Sisa” (Luisa Quispe) are beginning to struggle. It hasn’t rained for very long time and the local wells have long-since run dry. It is “Sisa” who is charged with...