EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
Ciro Guerra

O.V. Spanish

In 1909, Karamakate, a reclusive shaman living in Amazonia, meets Theodor, a very ill white ethnographer who convinces him to venture together into the forest to find yakruna, a mysterious plant with healing and hallucinogenic properties with power over dreams, assuring the shaman that he can help him find members of his tribe, who Karamakate believes have been wiped out by colonists. We again meet Karamakate in the 1940s, and this time the elderly shaman agrees to serve as a guide for Evan,...