Miami International Film Festival 2010

East Coast Premiere.

In a tiny, traditionally conservative Peruvian seaside village, young fisherman Miguel (Cristián Mercado), and his beautiful bride Mariela (Tatiana Astengo) prepare to welcome their first child. But Miguel hides a scandalous secret. He is involved in a clandestine romance with another man, Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a handsome painter ostracized by the community because he's gay. After a tragic drowning accident, Santiago’s ghost returns demanding that his body be given a proper burial.  Tormented, Miguel struggles to reconcile his devotion to his lover with his community’s rigid traditions; he must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal suffering, or doing right by him and exposing their relationship to the entire village, forever destroying his marriage and his position as a community leader. Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León’s sexy and haunting Peruvian ghost story was an award winner at the 2009 San Sebastian International Film Festival and just recently won an Audience Award at Sundance 2010.