Director Nicolás Pereda brings the actor Lázaro G. Rodríguez to a copper mining town with the conviction that not every moment in life can—or should—be clearly defined. One morning, on his way to work, Lázaro discovers a dead man by the roadside and returns home. Whether he simply doesn't want to work or is shaken by what he’s seen, or whether he is somehow implicated in a crime—none of it is clear, and nothing is certain. Days pass: breakfast, time with his mother and aunt, visits to a hospital where something seems wrong with his breathing though no illness is diagnosed. What is true and what merely feels true remain indistinguishable, as a taut, enigmatic psychological tension runs through the entire film like a riddle. The music, which heightens the mystery of these uncertain relationships and situations, was composed by Pereda himself. Perhaps, the film implies, it is the smallest thing that sets events in motion and expands emotion into what we call "drama." Pereda's film shows us that life is a continuous series of the unknowable, and that genre categories, like those of conventional film, don't apply. (Sung MOON)