This is a true life story about a very young boy who has been living in Mexico but is about to move to Rome with his Italian mother. For one month or so, he goes to live with his father and grandfather in their fishing village in Mexico's Banco Chinchorro coral reef-the world's largest pristine coral reef.
This film is as much about the camera's (and our's) love affair with the environment of the reef as it is about the tender relationship between young Natan and his father (who may never see his son again). We watch as Natan learns about his father's simple life as a fisherman, the joys and pleasures of life on the reef, and the male bonding in this way of life.
Most touching, perhaps, are the scenes featuring the wild egret that migrates from Africa, and lands in their hut one morning. Although it is Natan who forms an attachment to the bird, once the bird flies away the audience becomes aware that there is a parallel here between the bird and Natan himself.
This viewer cannot but hope that Natan himself will see this film several times over the course of his own life, and let it inform his path and his sense of who he is........and the rest of us as well.
This film is as much about the camera's (and our's) love affair with the environment of the reef as it is about the tender relationship between young Natan and his father (who may never see his son again). We watch as Natan learns about his father's simple life as a fisherman, the joys and pleasures of life on the reef, and the male bonding in this way of life.
Most touching, perhaps, are the scenes featuring the wild egret that migrates from Africa, and lands in their hut one morning. Although it is Natan who forms an attachment to the bird, once the bird flies away the audience becomes aware that there is a parallel here between the bird and Natan himself.
This viewer cannot but hope that Natan himself will see this film several times over the course of his own life, and let it inform his path and his sense of who he is........and the rest of us as well.