The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

5/21/2026

Women are in very short supply in this Chilean desert mining community whereas gay men seem far more common! Fortunately, there appears to be an equilibrium between "Don Clemente" (Luis Dubó) and his working men and "Mama Boa" (Paula Dinamarca) who holds sway over the no-nonsense "transvesti". Things start to go wrong with this balance in the early 1980s when a mysterious plague starts to affect the population. Highly superstitious, the locals begin to believe that it can only be spread by gazing into the eyes of an homosexual. Watching these changes in attitudes is eleven year old "Lidia" (Tamara Cortés) who sits squarely in the middle amidst these increasingly polarising camps and through her friendships acts as a conduit for our own observations of just how the behaviour of this small,