(Historias de Lagartos). Like Yesterday's Dream, Lizards' Tales deals with suppressed memory and internalized repression. It too is set in the Chilean countryside and uses the sparse and scarcely populated landscape to reflect the subjective states of mind of its characters. Lizards' Tales is divided into three stories, each of which forms an extended metaphor for Bustamante's sense of how his country's recent history impacts on individual behavior and social bonds. In the first tale, a young man tries to keep his wounded friend alive as they escape from one unnamed place and travel to another. In the second, the paradigm of the prodigal son's return becomes a way of representing the difficult reunion of an exiled man with his ailing, aged father. The last tale juxtaposes a frustrated older man's sexual aggression against a woman with his and another man's wanton cruelty toward animals, depicting both as desperate responses to degradation. --Coco Fusco