Filmed in 43 days.
Award: Grand Prix du 30ème Festival du Cinéma Européen de Virton 2009 (Belgium).
Some characters like Saturnina and Max are also based on reports and anecdotes of local villagers and foreign doctors.
Although the film is fictional, it is inspired by true events that took place in the year 2000 in a Peruvian village of Choropampa District.
Due to extreme weather conditions at an altitude of 5,000 meters in the Peruvian Andes, the crew and cast had access to a medical team 24 hours a day.