PER 1981 | Director: María Barea | Script: Carmen Barrantes | Camera: Alejandro Legaspi | Music: Fernando Espinoza | Production: Ana Correa, Pierre Hoffmann, Faust Film München | Colour | 16mm | 30 min | dubbed german version | EZEF

„This film is also about work and bread and a roof over one's head; that is, about the most basic human needs. Rosa Duenas tells her story, which is at the same time the story of a settlement on the edge of Lima – 'El Planeta' to its residents – in which women join forces. Rosa Duenas and the other women represent a new type of Peruvian woman who no longer accepts her poverty as inevitable.“ (Frauenfilmhandbuch, Berlin 1983)

Two-thirds of Lima's population live in villages like "El Planeta". These settlements were formed of necessity due to the poverty of their residents. Rather than adapting to the precarious situation, in Maria Barea's film the residents demonstrate solidarity in diverse ways to combat social evils such as hunger, illness, illiteracy and a lack of canalisation and childcare. This film rekindles the viewer's awareness of the vital role of community and cohesiveness, and of people's aspiration and fight for a better country in solidarity.

This film, along with Al-Ahlam al-Mumkinna / Permissible Dreams by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (Egypt 1983), is part of the seven-part series "As Women See It", distributed by the Evangelical Centre for Political and Developmental Film Work, EZEF.