A divorced taxi driver shows up with a black eye at the home of his ex-wife’s new family; he’s been invited to dinner and he desperately wants to reconnect with his young daughter. A professional magician’s car breaks down and he ends up spending an emotionally intense night with a young, widowed toll booth worker. A singer songwriter serving a lengthy prison sentence is released for one night to perform at a local community centre. These three deeply engaging stories about yearning for connection unfold in parallel, one New Year’s Eve in a small town in central Uruguay, balancing the universality of human suffering with a powerful sense of hope.
While a rumor about the presence of sharks in a small beach town distracts residents, 14-year-old Rosina begins to feel an instinct to shorten the distance between her body and Joselo's.
What feeds us? Who feeds us? Juan and Olga produce tomatoes, cheese, meat and peppers; their loving work brings us closer to the unity of the circle of life. Chacra contemplates this cycle through a dazzling visual and sound poetry, questioning the place we human beings occupy in the culture of farming, which is irremediably dying out.
