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A fun trip of girls will become their worst nightmare.

The Vigil is a thriller film that tells the story of the relation established between two opposite characters that share an intense and strange night in today's Lima. Edgardo Chocano, a westernized Peruvian intellectual of upper class and a violent and instinctive girl of the lower class that is escaping the threat of a gang of criminals. It's main theme deals with the possibility of an understanding between this two contradicting characters.

It is 1968 and Guille and Bobby, two friends who live in La Punta, Callao, enjoy the beach in their last summer before starting college and start their adult lives. Manolo is a teenager who dreams of one day making movies without much hope because of him being Peruvian. They listen to rock and feel sorry for how hard they find to leave their neighborhood to go to a concert. Their routine will change with the arrival of a young hippie spirit named Emma. The music of Los Yorks, Los Saicos, Telegraph Avenue, Los Shain's, Traffic Sound, The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter and Black Sugar are present in this film.

A woman who builds her own destiny in seventeenth-century Peru.