With beautiful cinematography and art directon, and a well directed first-time casting, the film tells a story held in a traditional Mayan Kaqchikel community who worships nearby volcano, avoids the snakes that live there, and is exploited by greedy employers in a coffee plantation. María has been promised to marry the foreman of the plantation. However, not only she does not want it, but also is sexually excited in her virgin teen age and is attracted to Pepe. The latter is a drunkard who dreams about fleeing to the United States, where he expects everything is better than in Guatemala countryside. Well, then there is a well built drama, which explores where Kaqchikel rural and indigenous culture. Harsh reality is interwined with magic, the sadness of unsafe uncertainty faces the happiness of life.
