El principio del mundo

A thirty-three-year-old man returns to his home country, Peru, feeling like a castaway: he has no partner, friends, capital, or job, nor the slightest idea of ​​where to steer his life; his only recourse has been to take refuge in his mother’s house in the neighborhood of his childhood—a place he had left years earlier, swearing he would never return. This homecoming becomes a journey into the light and shadow of memory. The reappearance of a friend from the past—and with him, the teacher who taught them to read and write—triggers a whirlwind of painful revelations that begin to unravel his inner knots: the ghosts of his origins, the terror that gripped the country where he grew up, the hardships of the public school system, and, beyond that, the suffering of rural Andean life and the discovery of social and racial divides.