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Martin is a linguist who seeks to record and preserve the disappearing indigenous languages of Mexico. He travels to an isolated community to find the last few speakers of Zikril and record them before their language is gone forever. He finds an elderly woman, Jacinta, who speaks the language and tells him that only two others remain who do. When she dies, Martin finds that the two men, Evaristo and Isauro, have refused to speak to each other for fifty years.
As Martin tries to bring the two together, he begins...