Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

An Evangelical Christian man attends the burial of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious cults that clash with his beliefs. (imdb)

The director has chosen to take a chapter from Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666 as the starting point for a film that blurs the lines between fiction and documentary. In the fictional - yet prototypical for its universal quality - town of Santa Teresa, located on the US border, investigator Juan de Dios Martínez stands on the dividing line between journalism and detective work to lead an investigation that revolves around a handful of crimes and abuses committed against women and workers in the are