Day One

In the Purépecha community of Paracho, the Torres family gathers periodically to build enormous flying balloons, to which they dedicate weeks of labor, with the only goal of, together, liberating the bad emotions that accumulate over time.

Adriana spends every night at the same seedy hotel. She’s just started her shift with a new man, and it looks like it’s going to be a long one.

The rebozo (shawl) is part of one of the oldest traditions in Mexico, It’s an essential element to understanding the identity of how Purépechas dress. The mother of the artisan Albertina Bautista was one of the pioneers in creating rebozos (shawls) detailing them with feathers of different types of birds.