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In a drought-stricken village, 15-year-old Judith uses her gift for finding underground water to help her father, until a corpse in an old well exposes a water-theft network that may implicate him.
In a drought-stricken village, 15-year-old Judith possesses the mysterious gift of finding underground water, a talent she uses to help her father, Òscar (47), deliver it in his tanker truck. One day, she believes she has discovered a corpse inside an old well. This marks the beginning of an investigation that connects the crime to a water theft network run by a powerful local avocado farm. Everything darkens with the possibility that her own father may be involved in the murder. Caught in a moral and social conflict that forces her to mature early, Judith will fight to uncover the truth.

Credits

Director
Jairo Boisier Olave
Screenwriter
Jairo Boisier Olave, René Ballesteros
Producer
Diego Pino Anguita
Co-Producer
Gastón Chedufau, Rosario Jimenez Gil, Heverton Lima, Marie Mouchel-Blaisot
Production Company
CangrejoFilms, In Co-production with:

About the Director

Jairo Boisier Olave
Jairo Boisier Olave is a Chilean filmmaker born in 1975 and based in Dijon, France. He holds a degree in Sociology, a Master’s in Arts and Languages from EHESS in Paris, and a Master’s in Screenwriting from UIMP in Valencia, Spain. His debut feature, ‘La Jubilada’, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was selected at several other festivals. He was awarded a prestigious grant
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