“Played with magnetic force by Asia Argento, Caro returns to Venezuela to sell the cacao plantation inherited from her father. But the estate she finds is not empty. Its crumbling buildings are still home to former workers and their families, for whom this ruin remains the sole refuge. What begins as an attempt to claim an inheritance soon mutates into a brutal battle over property, memory, and power, as the colonial hacienda starts to disclose the darkness buried in its foundations. Unfolding among tropical overgrowth and the remains of a once-prosperous plantation, this family story becomes a parable of violence written into the land itself. The director traces a dense network of connections between colonial inheritance and the present condition of a country submerged in chaos, fusing psychological thriller with feverish genre cinema drawn from tropical Gothic and Italian giallo. What survives empires and family myths? Disturbing as a nightmare, the film insists that land belongs to no one, and that death, true to the title, acknowledges no master.” — Ewa Szabłowska, New Horizons Film Festival
PRESS
"Impeccable bad vibes… goes full Latin-American Peckinpah" IndieWire - Daniel Katz
"Deeply unsettling." Cineuropa - Olivia Popp
"One might feel concerned about developing crotch rot" The Hollywood Reporter - Leslie Felperin
"Born like a nightmare... a true cinematic work" MediaPart - Cédric Lépin
"An outward spiral of violence brutal enough to stain the soil red" RogerEbert.com - Isaac Feldberg,
"Loving, scary, sexy and hypnotic" Dirty Movies - Victor Fraga
"Potent and mesmerizing" CBC - Radheyan Simonpillai
"Has everything it needs to become, already, a fierce and hard-won cult film" Nocturno - Matteo Vergani
"Argento gives a ferocious performance" FilmUforia - Meredith Taylor
"Charged with poison. It has the energy of a viper waiting to strike" High on Films - Debanjan Dhar
SCREENINGS
Cannes Film Festival - Quinzaine des cinéastes. France
Locarno Film Festival. Switzerland
Filmfest München. Germany
New Horizons Film Festival. Poland
Lima International Film Festival. Peru
Odesa International Film Festival. Ukraine
Fantastic Fest. USA
AFI Latin American Film Festival. USA
Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival. France
Vancouver International Film Festival. Canada
ReelWorld Film Festival — closing film. Canada
Windsor International Film Festival. Canada
Forest City Film Festival. Canada
Karo/Art Film Festival. Russia
Mostra São Paulo. Brazil
NBO Film Festival. Kenya
Cinemaissí Film Festival. Finland
Jakarta World Cinema Festival. Indonesia
