The interruption of the dream emerges as an investigation of 16th-century colonial Indian documents in Michoacán, among the current Purepechas who inhabit that state in Mexico. The video stems from work in the community of Cherán, who gained autonomy in 2011 after rising up and expelling drug dealers and political parties from their territory. Amid masks, music, processions and rituals, the work narrates the changing of the 12 councilors (keris) of the Communal Government Major Council, the collective governing body of Cherán. Spectators are introduced to a new symbolic dimension of political representation at the core of Mexican indigenous social movements.
