Historias de lagartos

A young artist starts a friendship with his neighbour, a criminal who, tormented because of one of his crimes, seeks forgiveness.

Notes from a trip to the countryside landscape of central Chile (Maule). Dawn, men by a campfire, a boy prepares a basket to catch animals, a man with vine shoots on his back, men hunting rabbits, a man lying in bed with a Virgin by his side talks about his children who have departed, castration of a animal while the peasants cast carvings, songs and a procession of a Virgin with candles. A woman talks about Saint Sebastian who has cured her son. Horse race. Party at sunset with voices, Mexican music and boleros. Group of men in front of a campfire. (Info: Itinerary of Chilean Documentary Cinema 1900-1990, Alicia Vega)t

A young horse-tamer is wrongly accused of theft.

Monitoring of the Maule River through its route through the central zone of the Chilean countryside, recorded during the four seasons of the year and at different times of the day. Some people who live there, from mountain range to coast, are giving their testimonies through stories, impressions or anecdotes. (Alicia Vega)