Jovita. Her son is missing. Atoyac, Gro.

Mario. Lives in Papantla’s most polluted town. Emiliano Zapata, Ver.

In 2019 my high school friend, Atzin Molina, was kidnapped & disappeared by a drug cartel in a Mexico City nightclub; during the last 20 years, the Totonac deity of thunder and rain, also called Atzin, has been described as disappeared due to the ecological devastation and pollution of the state of Veracruz.

These two stories converge to form a portrait of how violence transits between the natural environment, the bodies of individuals, my group of friends and the cultural unconscious of Mexico.

A documentary film by
Manuel Bayo Gisbert

Produced by
Natalie Karinskaya
La Cachimba Audiovisual
Pedro G. García

Line Producer
Omar Lázaro

COMING 1Q–2Q 2025.