Reclusive Clara (Wendy Chinchilla Araya) has a connection with the earth and with all that is feral and untamed. And living where she does, with her overbearing mother and her 15-year-old niece on the fringes of a Costa Rican cloud forest, she is surrounded by wildness. Her mother seeks to protect her, tying ribbons to the trees to mark the boundary that Clara must not cross. But the arrival of hired hand Santiago (Daniel Castañeda Rincón) stirs something in Clara, prompting an emotional awakening. This atmospheric debut from Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén combines mud, moss and mysticism to arresting effect.
