In 2009 three armed men attacked the indigenous Chuschagasta community in Argentina, killing its leader, Javier Chocobar. Despite video evidence, justice was served nine years later. In her documentary debut, Lucrecia Martel, with precision of sound and image, reveals how centuries of erasure underpin a single act of violence and composes a poetic ethnography on colonialism, resistance, and the quiet persistence of those who are deprived of their place on earth. In Martel's words: “When we think of the land expropriated from indigenous peoples, we think of raw materials, but beauty itself has also been stolen”. The film was awarded the Best Film Award at the BFI.
