“Fathers die, and I can’t bring anyo­ne back to life.” The mayor of Rosa’s vil­la­ge is no help to the 13-year-old: the Huilliche lives on the Chilean island of Chiloé and beco­mes an orphan when her father is mur­de­red by a German sett­ler. Neither the sta­te nor the church want to offer her jus­ti­ce, but she finds shel­ter with Mateo, who, tog­e­ther with other indi­ge­nous inha­bi­tants of the island, main­ta­ins old tra­di­ti­ons and ritu­als. Through him and in the con­flict with the rulers, she finds her own magic powers. Nature mys­ti­cism and the urge for free­dom: a dra­ma from the late 19th cen­tu­ry unfolds in calm, earth-colo­red images, based on a true sto­ry of right and wrong. (RW)