[Introduction]
A painter from Mexico City retreats to the countryside to take his own life. His dulled senses return when he meets an old woman in vast wilderness and his desires and instincts for life and raw sexuality is reawakened.
[Synopsis]
A man leaves Mexico City for the remote countryside to prepare his death. There he finds lodging with an old indigenous Mexican widow in her rickety home overlooking a desolate canyon. In the vastness of a wild, breathtaking nature, he confronts the old woman’s infinite humanity and oscillates between cruelty and lyricism. His dulled senses return to him, reawakening his desires and instincts for life and raw sexuality.
