In the depths of the Colombian jungle, the skeleton of an immense abandoned cement bridge is tucked away. It has turned into a delusional tourist attraction.
In the depths of the jungle in southern Colombia, the skeleton of an immense abandoned cement bridge is tucked away. Since 1940, the vertiginous route that connects the city of Pasto to Mocoa, known as the "springboard of death", has kept adding fatalities, without authorities doing anything to solve the problem. The new millennium brought a pharaonic project by the Colombian government to build a disproportionate detour in the middle of the jungle, but excessive ambition usually clashes with nature.
Through an endearing engineer, we discover the secrets of one of the most dangerous roads in the world, and we observe the curse that has turned the new detour into a delusional tourist attraction, a symbol of human absurdity. Selfies, futuristic designs, tonnes of concrete under the Amazon rain, and high doses of vertigo. A shadow of conspiracy hovers over the documentary, as if there is a macabre link between nature, politics, and ethnocentric arrogance.
