The Return

Its spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer Meanwhile news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country As people test positive for COVID19 in the community some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle Disconnected from school friends the internet and work one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over As COVID19 wreaks havoc around the planet the family reconnect to their ancestral ways but as news arrives that Ecuadors lockdown will end soon will the family choose to return