Higuita: The Way of the Scorpion 2023
From humble origins to soccer legend, this documentary captures the rise of Colombia’s René Higuita, from iconic career to personal controversies.
From humble origins to soccer legend, this documentary captures the rise of Colombia’s René Higuita, from iconic career to personal controversies.
Since the year 2000, there have been several waves of suicides among the indigenous population of the Colombian Amazon. I discovered that the men commit suicide because of love sorrow. Their wives leave them for white men. The latter think that the Indian feels nothing because they do not express themselves in the same way and, in their language, there are no words to describe feelings. Is it possible that a whole people, the Cácuas Indians, do not feel anything?
La Victoria is a town that could well be defined as a green hell where the law of the strongest prevails, fueled by the greed that emeralds arouse. The Guerrero family will arrive at this place. Alejandro Guerrero, father of Ricardo, Eduardo and Olga Guerrero, is forced to take his family to this distant place, where the emerald boom produces episodes of blood and fire that are repeated from generation to generation. In the midst of this war, Alejandro will have to face Patricio Ortega, great Patron of the region, since his arrival, not only for having opposite principles, but also for having the misfortune that the woman most desired by the Patron, fixes his eyes and your heart on it.
In this story, Kaleth Morales is a singer who seeks to revolutionize the musical genre that runs in his blood, and with his passion and talent, he manages to captivate his crowds as well as the heart of July Cuello; but his fate was already written long before he was born. At age 22, a car accident leads to his death, a tragic event that will transport his spirit to "El Limbo", a journey of memories and old rivalries. Miguel Morales, Kaleth’s father, begins a successful life as a composer and singer; the source of inspiration for his musical career comes from a vision where his eldest son plays the guitar on top of a white raft. Thus begins the legendary Morales Dynasty.