CAVICHE is a coming-of-age story about a love affair between 18-year-old Caviche and 16 year-old Chelina.


The conflict begins when Chelina discovers that she is pregnant. She doesn't know if the child is the product of her love for Caviche or her father’s sexual abuse.


Chelina is dedicated to Caviche and sees her father’s abuse as a kind of infidelity, as her own failure. So she makes a radical decision: she will not allow physical contact with Caviche until she finds a resolution. Caviche cannot understand her reasons but respects her position. For this reason, throughout much of the story, the couple never touches or kisses.


Chelina, with no self-doubt, decides to abort her pregnancy. Caviche, respects that this is not his choice and supports her decision, and intends to help her with the little money he has saved.


But Caviche discovers that his mother, La Vallenata, has spent all of his savings on a new T.V. With his money gone, Caviche follows his best friend, El Bojote’s advice and decides to become a gasoline smuggler to earn cash for Chelina's abortion.


To get into the gasoline smuggling business, Caviche performs a "devil's candle," a death-defying tug-of-war between competing cars, where the winner earns a place in the organization of Callo-Callo, the leader of the gasoline smuggling world. After winning, Caviche meets Callo-Callo, but rather than earning a place in the organization he is asked to perform one more act to prove his loyalty: to set fire to a business competitor. After doing so, Callo-Callo introduces Caviche to Altamar, a mechanic who will transform Caviche's old Renault 18 into a lightning-fast, death-trap packed with illegal gasoline for transport across the border.


Once everything is ready, Caviche's co-pilot and best friend, El Bojote, is incinerated in a spectacular accident while trying to smuggle gasoline with his uncle. Chelina offers to be El Bojote’s replacement. This time, Caviche refuses to support her decision. But Chelina argues she would rather be burned alive beside him than continue to live her life in fear.


When the couple is about to set off, Chelina's father discovers his daughter’s love affair and locks her in a barn. To find Chelina, Caviche follows Chelina’s father Negro Oñate. When he discovers where she is being held, he kills Negro Oñate.


With Chelina free, the couple set out on their journey, each with a secret: Caviche does not know whose son Chelina is carrying, and Chelina does not know her father’s fate.


The couple runs the gauntlet of armed ambushes, high-speed chases with the border patrol, and violent raids by military groups. The car barely makes it through.


As they find themselves lost in the middle of the desert, desperate from the heat and fear, the couple each decides to confess their secret. Each one unburdens themselves of their secret, and together finds a new reason to keep driving.


With secrets disclosed and intimacy restored, Chelina approaches Caviche. They move in the same direction, towards one another and touch for the first time in the story.

CAVICHE’s Universe is timeless and anachronic. In our fictional Latin American continent, we will establish different eras, without any single of them being the dominant one.

The production design will generate thirst and heat through a worn, faded, rusty and very warm style, where all the elements put on the screen will show high temperatures, sweat, the passage of time and the constant rubbing and irritation caused by the scratchy wind that corrodes everything.

"Pictures by Santi Donaire".