Candelaria tiene doce ąos y vive con su exčntrica familia en Parruca, un m̕tico lugar perdido entre montąas. Su madre habla con las piedras, su hermanastro cultiva hongos alucin̤genos y su padre, un artista que esculpe ballenas, los ha abandonado. Mientras la vegetaci̤n devora la casa, reciben a extrąos personajes: una mujer experta en plantas venenosas con m̀s de un muerto a cuestas, un hombre que teme a los rayos, un desahuciado que persigue su propia muerte y deja tras de s̕ un enigm̀tico manuscrito... Candelaria intentar̀ que la acompąen en lab͠squeda de su padre, y ese proceso le revelar̀ la verdadera complejidad de la vida y la naturaleza vulnerable de los seres humanos. Candelaria is twelve years old and lives with her eccentric family in Parruca, a mythical place lost in the mountains. Her mother talks to the stones, her stepbrother grows hallucinogenic mushrooms, and her father, an artist who sculpts whales, has abandoned them. While the vegetation devours the house, they receive strange characters: a woman expert in poisonous plants with more than one dead person in tow, a man who fears lightning, a hopeless person who pursues his own death and leaves behind an enigmatic manuscript. Candelaria will try to be accompanied in her search for her father, and this process will reveal the true complexity of life and the vulnerable nature of human beings.
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