Mamá Simona
Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.
Bertha
Julius is an upper-class boy in Lima in the 1940s. He lives in a palace with his aristocratic family and extensive servants. As the years go by, Julius will gradually lose his innocence, discovering and never understanding an adult world full of inequalities and injustices.
Perpetua (abuela)
No alto das remotas montanhas do Peru, Segundo, um garoto de 14 anos, está se preparando para seguir os passos profissionais do pai. Trabalhando como artesão, ele produz retábulos, tradicionais caixas coloridas que retratam cenas religiosas e eventos cotidianos. O menino reverencia o ofício, mas se depara com um chocante segredo do pai, que acaba por revelar a paisagem profundamente religiosa e conservadora que o cerca.
Rufina
In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.