UYARIY

Father Lucho has just finished a mass in his humble parish in the city of Juliaca, Puno. Before the congregation leaves, we see an Andean woman singing a cappella. The lyrics of the song speak of the victims of January 9, 2023, after a popular uprising led by Indigenous communities. Back in the empty church, Father Lucho shows us the sacks full of projectiles that citizens brought to his parish as proof of what happened.
Through this character, who went to live in Puno 40 years ago from the coast of Peru, we will meet the families of the victims who have found refuge in his church. He will guide us through each of the stories of these families who unjustly lost their loved ones. He will also guide us through different moments in Puno's history, going back as far as one hundred years to learn about the Wancho uprising, a Puno village that denounced the brutal abuse of the gamonales, rose up against the central government, and decided to found the new capital of Peru on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Then, as now, death and repression were not long in coming.