A 30 minute film that investigates the matriarchal economic and domestic systems of Swiss/Austrian emigrés Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild, in their connected homes on their land in Panajachel, Guatemala. Vivian and her mother Elisabeth have developed a matriarchal compound in an environment that offers both refuge and terror. Elisabeth is in her nineties and Vivian in her sixties and they are as close as maiden sisters, in fact the family relationship is shifting, each is at times mother and daughter to the other. This film takes a close look at their artistic, emotional and economic lives, with their extended householders: Mayan villagers as guardians and home help, and an assortment of dogs, it offers a tender look at an instance of post-colonial complexity.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24855