Each of Us a Desert

Xochitl carries the stories of her troubled village through a desert where words have power. Solitude shapes her journey: the stars, the wind and mysterious poetry offer company, but not the understanding she wants from another person. Emilia seems an unlikely answer to that longing. Beautiful and distant, she is the daughter of the conqueror responsible for terrible suffering. When the two girls travel together, their difficult connection begins to change. Across the dunes, attraction offers a possibility of belonging that neither can take for granted. But the desert’s dangers deepen after sunset, and finding a shared future means surviving a landscape where nightmares can become much more than stories.