La Hija Cóndor

Clara is a teenager growing up in a small indigenous community high in the Andes. Her adoptive mother, an elderly midwife who took her in as a baby, is training her to take on her vital role for the community. She has taught her the ancient songs used to guide women through childbirth, and bring new lives safely into the world for generations.

Clara’s voice carries on this tradition, but the community’s ability to live according to their customs and beliefs is being challenged by the encroachment of the modern world. Government doctors are visiting homes to warn women of the dangers of home births; the land isn’t yielding the crops families need to survive; and young people yearn for modernity and the lives they imagine in the big city. As her mother struggles to hold onto her to maintain the traditions of the community, Clara surrenders to the pull of the big city, and leaves their home to pursue a career as a folkloric music star.