Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in northern Mexico after years without seeing them. Their relationship with one another and with their parents is distant, full of small and tedious disputes. To make the situation more bearable, Gabino imagines a parallel reality where he is a detective searching for a missing workers’ leader, only to find himself caught in the nets of the local narcos.
Nicolás Pereda (Mexico City, 1982) has directed four short and nine feature films including documentaries and fiction, shown at film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno and Toronto. Perpetuum Mobile (2009) was selected for Films in Progress and later competed in Horizontes Latinos at San Sebastian Festival, to which he returned in 2011 with Verano de Goliat (Summer of Goliath), a film included in the retrospective “4+1: Contemporary Mexican Cinema”. Other works in his filmography are ¿Dónde están sus historias? (2007), Juntos (2009), Los mejores temas (2012), Matar extraños (2013) Los ausentes (2014) and Historias de dos que soñaron (2016). Fauna screened at the last Toronto Festival.