Hadamo

Every day, thousands of men enter the belly of the Cerro Rico, an ancient silver mine in the Bolivian Andes. To the indigenous and African slaves, it was known as the "man eater". The wagon enters the tunnels and the outside light becomes increasingly dim, until it disappears. The workers' laboured breathing mixes with the sounds of explosions, dripping water, and with their superstitions. The voyage into the bowels of the earth becomes a metaphor for a voyage into the human psyche which, in the darkness of the tunnels, gradually abandons reason and frees the unconscious, made up of fears, beliefs, and dreamlike stories. On reemerging, economic and family troubles bring the workers back to their difficult reality.