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A girl’s talent for telling Hollywood movie stories changes the fate of her family in rural Chile in the 1960s. The film Odavde do vječnosti (1953). This film, shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a tribute to American westerns and an exploration of the power of cinema/storytelling to change lives. In Spanish with subtitles, the characters are drawn from life, and from very difficult lives at that. Situated in the “driest place on earth,” the community is not unhappy. There is plenty of room for gentle comedy and young love. The camera moves away from the actual violence, but not from the story, which honestly tells the story of what goes on behind the scenes in a town in the saltpeter desert with a young woman at its center. The film was shot in an abandoned mining town, which only adds to the credibility.