The Red Tree

Synopsis

Eliécer, a mature, robust and solitary man, lives modestly in Rincón del Mar, in the Colombian Caribbean. He learns of the death of his father, disappeared while he was still a child, at the same time that he is entrusted with Esperanza, his half-sister become orphan. Not being willing to take her in charge, Eliécer resolves to take her to Bogotá with the mother who abandoned her baby. Toño, a young man who dreams of learning to box in the capital, joins them. For these three destitute beings, the journey will prove long and difficult. The different encounters are as many threats as beautiful human experiences. At the end of the road, Eliécer faces the decision to find the home and family he and Esperanza lost.