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I pity you for not understanding
the mysteries of the jungle.
Learn to listen to what you cannot see
and always keep your feet on the ground.
Don't let its sweet nectar lure you.
For you should know, the jungle can give a lot,
but it can take a lot too.
RÍO HONDO. BORDER BETWEEN MEXICO AND BRITISH HONDURAS (TODAY BELIZE)
When you walk through the jungle, you must always keep quiet.
Don't stop and observe nature.
If you hear voices behind you, don't turn around to look.
Pray she, who you fear and desire,
doesn't appear before you.
For the Xtabay woman knows which way you're going.
Look, those are doctor's or nurse's clothes.
Only they wear white dresses.
Listen, gentlemen,
stop fooling around.
We must find out where this brown girl came from.
But I warn you,
lay a hand on her, and you won't see the light of day.
Am I clear?
Yes, sir.
I couldn't cross through the shallows.
With the rain,
all the trunks washed away.
So I had to go around.
And my animals refused to pass through
because their legs sank in the mud and buckled.
They just wouldn't budge.
Yes, the waters have been tough, Mundo,
but it's been a good season.
Any news on the central?
The road to Payo Obispo is still closed.
But I have other news.
I was on the road and stopped to pee.
I saw a recently cut tree with a new bag.
And it's not like it was from last season.
My guess is it's not ours.
Our boss won't like it at all.
I gather it's the English that are crossing the river
to steal the gum.
We can't help the boss.
The gum season is over.
We can't solve a problem that's his.
That's none of your business.
I don't think we should do anything either.
Besides, the English are always well-armed.
Calm down, Caimán.
Faisán.
You're coming with me tomorrow. We have to find out what it's about.
No, Yuca.
Yuca, don't.
Hold it, Yuca!
You were right, Faisán.
Damn English men.
She's waking up.
Ausencio!
Untie her.
Who are you?
Where are you from?
Can you hear?
Come.
Come on.
Are you English?
Are you with those men?
How many are there?
Calm down!
She can't understand us. You're scaring her.
Do you speak Spanish?
She's English, sir.
Are you a doctor?
Come.
Come on.
He's sick.
Ill.
You, medicine?
Cure him.
I gather she comes from the English crowd.
But that's very strange.
As far as I know, they have no women with them.
Go get your bags now. We're cooking the gum this afternoon.
Be very careful though.
The English are armed for sure.
Maybe now you'll get better, brother-in-law.
What's your name?
Hello.
Want some gum?
This is gum.
It comes from a zapote tree.
If you chew it, it cleans your teeth.
This kind of gum is good to chew on.
It's chicle.
Would you like to try
a piece of chicle?
Yeah? It comes from a zapote tree.
You harvest the resin and make gum like this one.
Want a piece?
This is how it's made.
Like this. Look.
You take a piece like this.
This is how you chew it. Look, like this.
You have to do this. Like this, look.
Chew it like this.
Give it a try.
It tastes good.
Chewing it feels good.
Did you like it?
Hilario.
You're very pretty.
Yes?
Hilario!
Come here!
What do you want?
-What? -Why don't you come help me?
I just wanted to show the girl how to chew gum
and tell her it comes from a tree.
You fool.
It stuck.
Wake up.
Help him. Look at him.
Come on!
You look worse, in-law.
What's your name?
Can I call you lady?
My lady.
Has anyone seen Lázaro?
He's not back yet.
Press it downwards.
There you go. Try it.
Load.
It's ready to shoot.
Upwards.
Don't shoot.
Open it.
Remove the bullet.
Good.
The chamber jams when it has no bullets.
Do it hard.
It's ready to shoot.
Fire!
How lighthearted of you
to be able to fall in love seven times a day…
but not once can you resist her love.
Once you see Xtabay,
you'll feel like you're living for the first time.
She'll make you feel like a tree that flourishes under the rain.
You'll feel her eyes piercing through you
like two arrows you can't tear away from you.
But you'll feel no fear or pain
but insane bliss.
So, no word on Lázaro?
No.
I'm getting worried.
What if the English have him?
I think they have him.
He's just a kid.
He'll tell them everything.
He's just a boy.
He'll rat us out right away.
Now they know where we are
and that we have gum too.
Lots of gum.
Haunted by elves.
They won't hurt you.
-Are you sure they're elves? -Yes.
The same elves.
The only way to avoid them is by hiding your thumb.
With their feet backwards?
You know I don't want to talk about it.
-It's dangerous, brother. -Yes, let's change the subject.
Get her!
Behind a tree.
There.
Leave him there.
It's like 100 kilos.
Here's another one.
What happened, Jacinto?
The one-eyed Black man escaped and shot him.
Look, Mundo.
For you.
We took it from the English.
Don't be upset.
The boss will repay us.
Those we've left behind are gone.
That was their sacrifice.
Yeah, right, the boss pays us scraps.
He can't give me my brother back.
I agree with Jacinto.
What do we get?
A few coins, some bottles…
That's all.
Don Onésimo will understand.
And he'll reward us.
Right, Ausencio?
To hell with Don Onésimo.
Tomorrow…
we'll leave to cross the Río Hondo,
and we'll get to the other side.
We'll sell the gum to the smugglers.
They'll pay us 1,000 times what the boss will ever pay us.
I heard of a Mennonite that can buy the whole load.
We shouldn't do that.
Don Onésimo will send his people to chase us down.
And if they find us,
they'll kill us.
I don't know about you,
but I'm not going back to Payo Obispo.
No one will tell me what to do ever again.
I think we should do it.
With the English load,
we have half a ton.
Any thoughts, Mundo?
If this is how it is…
I say we cross to the other side.
I have nothing to lose.
I agree with Don Mundo.
Then we're set, guys.
Cheers.
-Enough. -Put it down.
Enough.
Put it down, Yuca!
Steady.
Steady!
I pity you, so innocent and arrogant.
If you had to give your life to touch her,
you'd give it 70 times over.
Because you've found the Xtabay woman.
But she vanishes like smoke,
and you follow her like the wind.
Where will she take you? Where will you go?
The boss found us!
He'll kill us as he killed those men from Tuxpan
that fled from him to Guatemala.
He always made them suffer.
Easy, Campechano. He's gone now.
He tied both men to the trumpet tree for the ants to eat them.
All that was left of them were the bones.
Though they told him where the gum was, he didn't spare their lives.
He made them suffer
and killed them.
Shut up. He can't be looking for us already.
Damn you, Campechano.
Again with that ant story.
One, two,
let's go.
Roll him over.
Push him!
More.
There.
He's not sinking.
All right now.
Ausencio.
I want to cross the river first.
No, you'll stay behind, taking care of the lady.
In-law.
Go look for someone to help you carry me. Again, I can't stand on my own.
We can't drag you along anymore, Rubén.
Ausencio,
at least kill me.
Ausencio!
We haven't gotten very far.
We're near the river.
It's the boss's motorboat.
Don't be afraid, one-eyed fool.
We're half a league away.
Come on!
Campechano!
Ausencio is getting us lost.
We're just walking in circles.
But we must continue.
There's less of us now.
We'll each get more gum.
No one who followed Xtabay ever came back.
Where are those who don't come back?
But she won't call those who won't follow her.
The one who has armed himself with leather armor.
Campechano has gone mad.
That's what happens to men when they lose their senses.
Panic runs through their body.
It makes them run
until they can't run anymore.
So they trip over a stick
or a rock…
and stay there.
The boss is on to us.
Campechano was right.
It's not the boss's men!
It's the English!
Be free of Xtabay's curse.
You who couldn't resist her.
If I could give you a talisman, I would,
but I don't have one.
I pity you who have been lured by her.
The Xtabay woman is the one you desire among all women…
and the one you haven't found in any yet.
She who, when she has you captive,
will seem to you like she's coming out from a ceiba tree trunk…
but instead comes out from the depths of your own heart.
Inspired by the poems about the Xtabay by Antonio Mediz Bolio
"The Land of the Pheasant and the Deer"
Filmed in Quintana Roo, Mexico. No animals were harmed.
The chicle in this film is organic and biodegradable,
100% sustainably harvested from zapote trees in the Maya jungle,
produced by a co-op under a fair trade scheme.
This film contains poems by Antonio Mediz Bolio,
under copyright protection and based on poems in the public domain
published in the book "The Land of the Pheasant and the Deer."