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In an isolated rural facility, two children are being equipped to survive the new world.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Even uninhabited archipelagos may be subject to drawn out territorial disputes if they are rich in oil deposits. However, the filmmaker is more concerned with how ownership issues reverberate amongst nationalists in competing countries rather than in the history of the dispute or its resolution, making it possible to present the patriotic pathos-soaked ceremonies of the Japanese, the efforts of Chinese authorities to complicate diversionary activities, and the expressive protests and bizarre rituals of Taiwanese activists. The desire to understand the situation leads the director to participate in several futile attempts to land on the islands. Although he finds himself on the frontline during an escalation in the conflict, he is able to maintain his distance as an impartial observer.
Ermina is a Haitian girl who lives in the "La Victoria" town, on the border with the "Lo Valledor norte" town. Although this seems an inhospitable place to live -Ermina and her friends- it will make it the best place in the world, a place where nothing matters: neither color, nor nationality. A place that does not belong to anyone, but which is Ermina's home.
