I am honored by the Inca beating of Tamiko, a Japanese woman who arrived at the habitat that was Machu Pichu, and forgetting the saying that goes: “to the land you come from, do what you see” LOL. What a delight to see the llamas, one with a white head and a black body!! From the exotic but traditional welcome – to her and her son Takeshi – with the san-san-kudo ceremony to the tantrums for trying to impose her will by washing the head from infants apparently with lice and arithmetic calculations on market days, this is a wonderful exploration of the very complicated acculturation in the Andes. A woman who mistakenly tries to do something noble and kind but forgets that you cannot manipulate the environment you have just arrived in without first recognizing and being recognized in it. He is immediately bothered by the alcoholic beverages that the Quechuas drink on sale or market days and others. Her reluctance to accept the unusual conditions of the mountain and her complaints lead her to ask her second husband, Taro Ueda, to guide her to the town or city in Cologne; The train ride, although short in scene, is picturesque along Lake Titicaca. Another thing will be the discomfort of not finding accommodation in the city for the international cultural meeting and about to sleep on the street, a German family invites her to spend the night with them so that, the next day, they can go to the fields. and learn to identify mint and other crops.
Slowly there is appropriation of the strange in the protagonist, and the beauty of the film lies in Tamiko’s progressive adaptability to the place;

For example, Tamiko and Kiskis, her husband’s assistant, carry without knowing, I repeat, with profound ignorance, a guaco (a clay God or deity in a pot or amphora) in order to sell it. But when detected by a member of the city’s culture department, the relic was confiscated and they were locked up in prison for selling state-owned antiquities. They are released and upon returning to the mountain her husband Taro has disappeared, she receives a Quechua-style marriage proposal but soon Taro returns just for the birth of her second child.

Unfortunately, among the finds are landslides and a huge tombstone crushing Taro. It seems that the synchronization of Tamiko’s love is not good at all, neither with her first deceased husband nor now with her second, and to make matters worse, at the end, she suddenly sees Sasaki again, the Japanese man who hinted at how pretty she was during their marriage. first trip to the city, only now he arrives married.