Adventuring into the remote and exotic terrain of the Tarahumara Indians, filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas have crafted a film that uses nonprofessional indigenous actors to tell a story drawn from incidents typical of their daily lives. Two young brothers on the verge of teenhood, Evaristo and Tony, perhaps a bit cocky at just having successfully finished the school year, are charged with delivering a package by their grandfather. The boys take their first plunge into adult-like decisionmaking when they take along the grandfather's horse-a rural Lexus in comparison to the donkeys they usually ride-without his permission. Before long, they lose the horse. As they negotiate the Tarahumara social network that spreads across empty mountains, meeting a panorama of inhabitants, from kindly old folk to citified, rowdy youth, the boys become separated. The challenges of navigating unfamiliar territory, completing a mission, and, in the end, being honest with themselves and others about their mistakes reveal for them how complicated and unpredictable life will become. One suspects that the filmmakers have been exposed to the work of Bolivia's Jorge Sanjinés, whose stories of indigenous people told with nonprofessional actors and the simplest of camera techniques have established a unique Latin American subgenre. In their debut film, Guzmán and Cárdenas push the envelope even further when it comes to elliptical storytelling. Presenting their tale in a series of actions and incidents with almost complete disregard for exposing the fundamental facts of the story, they have woven a complex web of micro-anecdotes and dramatic twists that mount to suspense and, eventually, revelation.