Gabriela Cueto

In 2007 Cristina Vázquez, a native of Posadas, settled in Buenos Aires, built a life, made new friends. I am one of her new friends. We work together in a restaurant. In that place happens the police raid that turns my friend Cristina into the queen of the hammer: a young woman rampant, drug addict and promiscuous who is also a murderer. Months later, without evidence, she is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. Fragments of an unknown friend in the story who wrote to Cristina Vázquez in the perfect suspect. A story that, without convincing evidence, is still in jail today.

Along distant and desolate streams, five men start looking for the fossil of the largest feline that has ever inhabited these lands – the saber-toothed tiger –, holding onto the hope of saving themselves through the sale of the bones of the tiger.

Overava, which in Guaraní means shiny, makes reference to the treasures hidden underground in Paraguay in the mid-19th century, during the Triple Alliance War. According to folk tales, the owners of these valuables never unearthed them because they were cruelly killed during the war. However, their greed condemned their spirits to keeping watch over them. Lights, trees with blue flames, headless dogs and white animals show up at night during bad weather. Everyone knows about the legend, many have seen the ghosts, some treasure hunters go out every night searching for the gold that is hidden only a few feet deep, but few know the secret of how to create an emphatic connection with the former owners to get them to hand over the treasures.