"Licarayén", is inspired and bringing to life “The Legend of the lake Llanquihue” that has been passed on through generations from the Mapuche people.

It is the story of Licanrayén, who was once sacrificed to safe her people. She was the chiefs daughter of an indigenous tribe that once opon a time suffered great pain caused by the powerful Pillán (spirit).

Pillán would make the volcano Osorno explode and the land tremble. An old Indian lady told the tribe that to overcome Pillán, they had to take the heart out of the most beautiful virgin of the tribe. Place the heart on a cinnamon branch, and so a condor would come and swallow the heart, and bring the branch and drop it into the Osorno crater. Dark clouds would appear, snow would fall for years, capturing the evil Pillán inside the Vulcano, leaving the indigenous people to live in peace.

However, before the Indian woman disappeared, she told the men and women of the tribe to be good and virtuous. Once they return to their misdeeds the snow will melt, and the Pillán will once again throw fire & ashes to destroy the land and people.

Filmed in the very same area around Lake Llanquihue and the Osorno Vulcano, the film is an awakening of Licarayéns story and interpretation of the myth of how the indigenous people once overcame evil forces to survive and live peacefully in the land.

Note: this is a short extract of the orginial myth