“To preserve nature means to preserve ourselves.”

In March 2022, the two filmmakers backpacked their way to the last tropical rainforest in North America – South Chiapas, Mexico – to encounter the native LACANDON PEOPLE, the last direct descendants of the Mayas, on their sacred land. The Lacandons like to call themselves the ‘True People’ because of the essential relationship they have kept engaging with their environment, community and traditions. The directors spent two months immersed in their forest, culture and cosmology, deeply moved. What stood out from our experience was the paramountcy of the Lacandons’ relationship to nature – to their forest – with which they cultivate a perfectly harmonious horizontal relationship, belonging so profoundly that they are blended with it.