La paisana Jacinta: En búsqueda de Wasaberto

La paisana Jacinta: En búsqueda de Wasaberto

Year: 2017

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Adolfo Aguilar

Jacinta, an Andean indigenous woman, embarks on a journey back to her hometown of Chongomarca with the goal of locating her missing husband, Wasaberto. Upon her return, she discovers that a multinational construction company plans to build a large hotel, threatening to displace her and other residents from their homes and traditional way of life. She must navigate this conflict while searching for her husband and protecting her community.

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Jacinta returns to Chongomarca (a fictional town in the Ayacucho department) with the mission of finding her husband, Wasaberto. But she meets Julinho, an engineer from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which plans to tear down the place where Jacinta lives to build a hotel complex. Jacinta meets her old friend Guillermina who tells her that Odebrecht had acquired the property illegally through a real estate swindler and Wasaberto had traveled to Lima in order to collect the necessary documents to prevent the construction company from destroying his home. In this way, Jacinta returns to Lima and meets Father Bartolomé who gives her information about Wasaberto. In the parish house, Jacinta begins to pray asking God for help for the fate of her husband and her house, but she is interrupted by a street girl who calls herself Rafa who accompanies her to the Notary. Johana, one of the notary’s officials who had previously helped Wasaberto, agrees to help Jacinta with the documents under the surveillance of Dra Sifuentes and her henchmen Agapito and Yuca. Jacinta, on Johana’s recommendation, goes to the police station with Rafa to file a complaint for Wasaberto’s disappearance where they make a peculiar spoken portrait of Wasaberto and Lieutenant Vásquez suggests Jacinta go to the General Hospital and the Morgue to rule out that she is missing. dead or hospitalized. Very scared, Jacinta goes with Rafa to the General Hospital and although there were N.N. in serious condition, none were Wasaberto. Meanwhile, Johana asks her friend Napoleón (who is in love with her and works in the court) for help to expedite the paperwork while being watched by Agapito. Then Johana returns to the Notary but Dr. Sifuentes calls her and warns her not to continue helping Jacinta since it was a topic that did not suit her, at that moment Dr. Sifuentes receives a call and Johana takes the opportunity to stay with all the documents, at that moment Johana receives a call from Napoleon where he confirms that she has the remaining documentation but must leave the Notary since Dr. Sifuentes was linked to the scammers. Likewise, Johana discovers through the call of Dr. Sifuentes who asks Agapito to kill her for knowing too much. Johana runs away with the documents while being intimidated by Agapito.

At the Hospital, Johana meets Jacinta who helps her enter the morgue to determine if any of the bodies was Wasaberto’s, fortunately none of them belonged to him. Later, Jacinta and Johana go out to meet Napoleon, although Jacinta realizes that Rafa is no longer with her. In a street they meet Napoleon who delivers the complete documentation, but they are captured by Dra Sifuentes and her henchmen who take the documents from them and confess the truth of the scam as well as the kidnapping of Wasaberto. Napoleón struggles with Agapito and Yuca while Johana retrieves the papers and flees, but Dr. Cifuentes shoots Johana in the back and Jacinta runs through, receiving the shot in the chest where she falls and later dies in the hospital.

In heaven, Jacinta meets Rafa who was actually an angel and tells her that for her act of courage, they would allow her to return to earth and continue searching for Wasaberto. Jacinta wakes up in the hospital and together with Father Bartolomé they go to the warehouse where Wasaberto, Johana and Napoleon were kidnapped. Jacinta confronts Dr. Sifuentes and her henchmen again, but the police arrive and arrest them. Jacinta recovers the documents but is informed that Wasaberto had fled without a fixed destination. Already with the documents Jacinta returns to Chongomarca and manages to stop the work but feels sad for not having found Wasaberto, but Guillermina gives her a letter in which Wasaberto said that he was arriving on the afternoon train. Jacinta quickly goes to the station and manages to reunite with Wasaberto.

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