Bitter Gold

Oro Amargo • Sixteen-year-old Carola dreams of higher education and a house by the sea, but lives with Pacifico, her father, in the middle of the Atacama Desert. Together with a small group of miners, they exploit an artisanal mine to survive, although father and daughter secretly work on a vein of gold at night. But when a miner discovers their secret and violently breaks into the gold mine, they kill the intruder. With her father seriously wounded. Carola takes his place in the mine, facing the hostility of the miners and her own immaturity.