Credits: screenplay: Gabino Rodríguez, Sebastián Hiriart; director of photography: Sebastián Hiriart; editor: Pedro Gómez García; music: Emiliano Motta, Emiliano Gonzalez de Leon; sound: Matias Barbieris, Gustavo Bellon; producer: Sebastián Hiriart; production: Galopando Films;

Country: Mexico

Year: 2010

Running time: 97

Colour: Colour

Format: 35 mm

The fine actor Gabino Rodriguez stars as a shepherd named Jacinto who tends his flock in the San Luis Potosi region in the north of Mexico. One day, after a powerful dream about discovering treasure, he finds a key chain with an address in Oregon. Thinking it a divine sign of impending financial gain, he slips into the U.S., where he is robbed and beaten by both fellow Latinos and young gringos, but nevertheless follows through on his plan until he reaches a remote snowy mountain pass where the address is located. Hiriart’s cinematography — he shot everything himself — is outstanding. His feeling for natural, urban, and small-town landscapes (most of the film takes place in the U.S.) is unique, as if the steady eye of a divinity were observing the world.