"I use the camera to block my view," says Lisette, a young photojournalist bearing witness to the genocide of the Peruvian Indians she has decided to live amongst. It is the start of her double-vision--trying to forget and trying to recall--and her struggle to come to terms with the human capacity for cruelty.
Corner of the Dead depicts the reign of violence perpetrated by the Shinning Path Guerillas, a Maoist based organization, the subsequent authoritarian counter attack by the Peruvian government, and the humanitarian groups that tried to help. Lisette is destabilized by the love she abandoned along with the fight, and desperately tries to find meaning beyond that of just surviving."
