Mirage of Love with Fanfare, Hernan Rivera Letelier, Bertille Hausberg

Her name is Golondrina del Rosario, she plays the piano and teaches poetic declamation; she is all delicacy and sensitivity. His name is Bello Sandalio, he is a redhead and a jazz trumpeter in the brothels of the region. They met on a passionate night, she gave herself to him... They live in a mining colony in the Atacama Desert where a presidential visit is expected, but the "damned of the earth" brass band, led by the anarchist barber, is preparing a different kind of reception. Hernan Rivera Letelier has made it his mission to sing about "his" desert, "where the only flowers are the shadows of stones," and to tell its infernal epic through characters who go to the heart of the matter: life and death, pain and madness, the strength of love, dreams, and utopia.