Essence & Folly

<p>Set in and around a small town in modern-day Belize <i>Essence & Folly</i> chronicles the lives of several poignant and comical residents from Santo Innocencio.</p><p>A humorous ���shing story of revenge gone wrong entitled Ole Gyal and Jackanapes exposes some of the di���culties arising from the generation gap between a cantankerous Mayan grandmother and her half-limey grandson.</p><p> The Voice over the Water recounts Do��a Elena's days of interminable melancholy and loneliness following the death of her husband. Three months after her heartbreak the widow ���nds herself at the edge of a cli��� confronting her own mortality.</p><p> Don Gabriel Loco is a madman serving out the ���nal days of a twelve-year sentence for the botched execution of his ex-wife's lover. While in jail he records the colorful details of that bloody evening in a diary. Eventually through deliberations with God Shakespeare and Diablo he arrives at the decision that he must ���nish what he started-in six seconds ��� at-the moment he's released.</p><p> Believing this is his best shot at a normal life a lonely bachelor enlists the help of a mule to pursue the love and attention of his neighbor in The Love Story of a Garbage Man.</p><p>In Leonid and the Mini-Commander a shopkeeper wonders whether his obsessions and compulsions are the result of prompts from a mini-commander hiding in a bunker lodged inside his head.</p>