The film is set in the late 1920s in the small and remote mining town of Uyuni in the highlands of Bolivia, lying between a vast salt desert and towering mountains.
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The film is loosely based on the 1974 novel Los Andes no creen en Dios by Adolfo Costa du Rels and two short stories by the same author, La Misk'isimi (Sweet Lips in Quechua) and Plata del diablo (The Devil's Silver).
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were freely combined with his 1973 novel Los Andes no creen en Dios The Andes do not believe in God to form the basis for a 2007 film Los Andes no creen en Dios starring Diego Bertie and Carla Ortiz.