The Allegory of the Cave
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Pedro Luca Mamani is an 80-year-old hermit who has lived in a cave in the mountains of Tucumán, Argentina, since he was 30 years old. His life is an incredible alchemy between his amazing ideas about the outside world and his natural universe. Throughout the four seasons of the year, his life and thoughts are depicted in an incredible setting. The portrait of an 80-year-old Argentinean hermit who has lived in the mountains of Tucumán for half a century, in a mysterious and disturbing symbiosis with the wild nature that surrounds him.
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