Synopsis

On the shores of the Ucayali, in Peruvian Amazonia, three generations of a same family are struggling to survive thanks to charcoal. Everything is against it. After an accident that burned her feets, the grandmother is leaving the family. Nancy has a hard time surviving, along with her teenage son. She tries to sell her products on a dying market, in vain. Dreaming of an easier life, her son breaks away from the work of “Carbonero”!