La Vía Damna

In that unhinged piece of land in the bowels of the Strait of Magellan, a cursed land for many, death was not a linear or very defined concept, but rather subjected to constant scrutiny as through a kaleidoscope. The Damna Way was a condemnation of body and spirit. Who entered, never came out. After the destruction and abandonment of Fort Bulnes in 1852, the first Chilean settlement in the inhospitable southern tip, its ruins became an improvised refuge for a hundred infectious and alienated people of various origins, all thrown by their crews to die at sea. . It was the Damna Way, a cursed path of no return, a place of cruel darkness. No locals dared to come near, fearing the sick who wandered under tattered white veils stained with mud and blood. They were abandoned by society, although all in the custody of a strange woman...