- Mauro is an older man with a passion for alpinism. Just before his family puts him in a retirement home, Sebastián, his grandson, secretly takes him on a mountaineering trip in search of freedom.
- Mauro is an old man, is in good health, but his memory begins to fail and one day he leaves the gas on. His sons agree to get him into a nursing home.
Refusing to live that way, Mauro decides to take his old mountain equipment and embark on an expedition to the Iztaccihuatl to wait for death at the top. The idea generates a family dispute.
Sebastian, his grandson, passionate for whitewater rafting is concerned about his work, her girlfriend and his father, so he decides to undertake the trip to the volcano with the intention of bringing his Grandpa back to his wedding.
At the mountain, Mauro shows Sebastian that life is haunted by death, and that the only way to drive life it's by following a path toward self.
On the top, Sebastian let his grandfather go and he also leaves everything that doesn't satisfy him in life.
Agua Blanca arises from a reflection about ageing in occidental culture and the search for freedom in the millenial youth. The idea of keeping alive the elderly who can no longer fend for themselves, has led society to build homes where those who nobody wants to take care of, become relegated.
Eskimo and Japanese traditions like ubasute suggest the abandonment of the old people on the ice or in the mountains, whenever their presence stops being useful for the community and it becomes a burden Evoking these ideas in the context of modern Mexico, this story questions the idea of living in death and the possibility of the free decision regarding the end of existence.
Based on Heidegger's thought on the condition of possibility and ownership of oneself as a project, Agua Blanca links two generations, both in search of self as temporal beings.
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