Description
A horror-infused, polyphonic work about the violence and cruelty seething in a late 1970s Guadalajara neighborhood.
At a traveling fair, a young girl visiting with her family asks a “serpent woman” to tell her future. The serpent woman’s answer is cryptic, but back in their neighborhood, the lives of the girl and her sister are haunted by a ghost and a boa as their world shimmers between the real and the unreal.
The Summer of the Serpent gives a multifaceted, multi-textured look at the sisters, their family, and their neighbors, who are caught in the strange, intense forces afflicting the neighborhood throughout that summer, much of which seems connected to forty years later, in more or less our own present.