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With all the elements of a contemporary western, combined with aspects of environmental intrigue, this story unfolds in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. There, a young healer of growing renown assists her father’s missionary work as illegal loggers invade the lands of the Indigenous people they aim to convert. Unconditional love, identity denial, and the imposition of narrative as a form of power are the backbone of a film whose complex atmosphere hints at the forces shaping both human and divine realms. A prodigious Helena Zengel (System Crasher, News from the World) channels the tormented, repressed heroines of Hitchcock and De Palma in this (extra)sensory journey to the far reaches of the Amazonia.