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It was an afternoon at the beginning of that summer... Marga is about to turn thirteen. Whiling away muggy afternoons in the small fisherman’s town of Paso Chico, she watches her f avourite soap on TV and waits for something, anything, to happen. Almost like an apparition, Recio arrives: disrupting the silence of siesta and revealing the strange, twisted dynamics of the town’s inhabitants. As a cargo ship waits on the viscous river of this hot, humid town, a sea of mud and secrets is unleashed, love and violence colliding as generational traumas and age-old superstitions come to the fore. Haunting and wry, Eugenia Ladra’s debut is an elemental fever dream of burning desire and coming of age. Show more