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Santiago's body, but he finds that the current has taken it away. Mariela eventually returns home, but then Santiago's body appears in the nets of a fishing boat. Miguel claims Santiago's body for a burial at sea as his lover wanted. He takes the shrouded body of Santiago
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Miguel is a young fisherman of Cabo Blanco, a small village in northern Peru with specific traditions regarding death. He is married to
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591:2018
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510:2011
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420:2018
244:Cast
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649:at
311:NPR
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