This invocation does not count the facts from the end to the beginning, but undoes them, diminishes them, de-refines them, decreases them, deconsumes them, de-extinguishes them.

My aunts tell me that one of our ancestors discovered the country's most prized energetic inheritance: the largest offshore oil field on the planet.

From a simple shrimp fisherman to a hero who filled the nation with hope.

In the end, the only abundance he left behind was the largest debt on the planet.

This is a story of a mysterious secret. It is a story about that which cannot be known, That which must not be spoken.

It’s like those family secrets that everyone knows but no one talks about, like an addiction, a rape, illegitimacy, or a debt. It’s like those State secrets that everyone knows but no one talks about, like fraud, dispossession, forgery, or a debt.

And since all of this cannot be told, It can only be embodied

Direction, script, photography, and editing: Diana Cantarey

Music and voices of Abkatún: Ana Cristina Pérez Ochoa

Sound: Andrés González (AASSP)

Animation: Mariana Peralta

Infrared photography: EYEAYAY Science Outreach

VFX: Martha Maya

With the support of the System of Supports for Creation and Cultural Projects