Altiplano

War photographer Grace, devastated after a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession. Her Belgian husband Max is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the Peruvian Andes. Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses caused by a mercury spillage from a local mine. Saturnina, a young woman, loses her fiancé to the contamination. Ignorant of its true source, the villagers turn their rage on the foreign doctors and, in the ensuing riot, Max is killed. Grace embarks on a journey of mourning to the place of Max's death where she will find her destiny merged with that of Saturnina.