Lucio, a piano teacher who cannot tolerate his loneliness, decides to rebuild his life based on the different ties he forges with his own students.
Acting
Pasco's Lucio: charm so thin you can see the rot underneath.
Direction
Olivera squeezes epic dread into 60 claustrophobic minutes.
Production
Ica, Peru locations that breathe 1930s decay and heat.
Director
Eduardo Gustavo Ramos Olivera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Set in Ica, Peru, the film explores how European immigrant communities in 1930s South America imported their own hierarchies of class and culture — Lucio's piano represents a dying colonial prestige.
The 60-minute runtime was reportedly a deliberate constraint: Olivera wanted the narrative compression of a short story, where every scene must carry lethal weight. The poison works structurally too — slow, then sudden.
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