At the bank of the ocean, a body grows between the sand and the concrete. Their dance guides us on a trip through the ancestral Afro-Mestize heritage and diverse ways of experiencing dance in the city of Puerto Limón.

In Costa Rica, the myth endures that the population is majority white. Through a train journey, we’ll know migrant communities that historically have been marginalized and forgotten. Unveiling that its people not only have European origins, but also, Nicaraguan, Afro-descendant, and Indigenous.

13-year-old Selva discovers that death is just the shedding of our skin. We can become wolfs, goats, shadows, or anything that fantasy allows.

The second in a series of shorts for National Geographic, intended for teaching and which explains the geography of the Atlantic Region of Costa Rica.

“A man will land on the moon first, before a highway comes here, to Limón,” said the governor of the province of Limón in 1928.

This prophecy, which certainly happened, serves to reflect the delayed situation and economic and social marginalization that has distinguished this port city.