A Peruvian American couple travels through Peru during its years of Maoist terrorism to find a cure for a supposedly incurable illness. Their trip gets a dramatic twist when their faith turns to fate and both get killed under vague circumstances.
Twenty years later their son follows his parents' footsteps during an intriguing and at times bizarre trip to shamans in remote Andean villages and the deep Amazonian jungle.
As his investigation approaches a spectacular climax, the truth about his parents' politicized death comes as a shock.
A mediados de los 80, una pareja de estadounidenses viaja al Peru para encontrar remedio a una enfermedad incurable. Ello coincide con los años del terrorismo maoísta. Su camino toma un giro dramático cuando el destino de ambos se trunca por su muerte bajo extrañas circunstancias.
Veinte años después, el hijo de ambos decide recorrer la huella de sus padres en una aventura fascinante y bizarra que lo lleva a visitar curanderos en remotos caseríos de los Andes y chamanes en lo profundo del Amazonas. Cuando su travesía llega a su clímax, la verdad acerca de la muerte de sus padres le es revelada.
The parents of Matt Lorenz traveled through Peru in the 1980's to find an alternative cure for a supposedly incurable cancer. Their trip took a dramatic turn when they got entangled in the Maoist movement that gained power in the central Peruvian Andes. According to the report of the local authorities they got abducted and killed by terrorists while on a climbing expedition. The killers were never caught.
Twenty years later, Matt works in New York with Peruvian immigrants who are breeding guinea pigs to grill at BBQ parties. They listen to the exotic huayno music of singer Sonia Morales. Matt's mother had met the singer just before she was killed.
Matt overcomes his fear and travels to Peru to look for the singer Sonia Morales and the shamans that treated his mother's illness. He recreates his parents' trip while experiencing traditional healing practices in the Andean mountain range and on the Pa cific coast. In the Amazon jungle he is introduced to medicinal ayahuasca, and under dramatic circumstances runs into the now hugely popular Sonia Morales.
As his investigation approaches a spectacular climax, the truth about his parents' politicized death comes as a shock.