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Stunningly beautiful, this ethnographic road movie follows a young boy on his first salt caravan into the Andes where he discovers life, a girl and an understanding of the power of the Goddess of the Earth. Thirteen year old Kunturi lives on the world’s largest salt flats high in the Andes and joins his father and a herd of llamas on a trip to take salt to the traditional communities in the Altiplano - a journey that lasts many months and allows him to observe the traditional customs of a vanishing way of life.

Director Toshifumi Matsushita spent 4 years living in the remote region and his eye for the beauty of the landscape is matched by his delicacy in understanding the significance of the local people’s relationship to the Earth.

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