Official selection, 2008 Berlin, Latinbeat, and Vancouver Film Festivals. This impressive debut feature from Iraqi-Chilean director Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez finds a dreamlike surrealism in the story of a precocious girl and her mute younger brother who leave their grandfather’s home in Nicaragua for Costa Rica, in search of their mother who left to find work eight years before. Traveling by foot, bus and boat, they meet other migrants along the way, including a homeless boy they befriend and an itinerant puppeteer who may wish them harm.