What year is this?

And where in the world are we?

These men are on a mission, one alluded to by a reflective voice-over from Bichirs character, Tito.

‘Without Blood’

‘Without Blood’Courtesy of TIFF

We had our dream, he says.

We were doing it for a better life… We had to break up the earth and we did.

Her father makes a space for her under the floorboards and tells her teenage brother to go and hide.

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This showdown does not go well, ending with a conflagration that Nina somehow survives.

The man (Bichir) picks up on her undertone immediately.

I know who you are, and I know why youve come, he says.

Youve come here to find me.

And now youhavefound me.