Mother Lode

Jorge leaves his home and family in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the goldmines of the Andes chasing the promises of the mother lode We follow Jorge through a journey full of omens where reality and magical thinking blend together as he discovers that the myth of wealth is built on sacrifices that become ever more tangible while the boundaries between victims and oppressors get progressively vague and blurred Mother Lode is a fable about the banality of the descent to hell in times of neoliberalism it is a paradigm of a relentless world in which everything can be sacrificed in the name of profit