Si no ardemos, cómo iluminar la noche

In the small coastal town of Manzanillo, Costa Rica, local teens and adolescents share their stories, lies, and fantasies on the cusp of a cataclysmic event. Playing amid ruins and wreckages, and voicing their boredom at the lack of change, Manzanillo’s children engage in a collective fabulation, finding strategies for building a new world from the old.

A tale about solitude portrayed from the intimacy of three brothers who are about to receive one of the worst news of their lives. In the midst of it all, the wilderness accompanies them, but also haunts them.

When a mysterious light invades socially awkward Lila, she encounters its source: a cyborg who comes to remind her who she was in a past life.