Welcome to a fantastic land. "The Monsters" has as only geography Famatina, in La Rioja, Argentina. A town with a small population, isolated by mountains and close to the clouds. Still today, as in another places in the world people still believes in dwarfs or lake monsters, its inhabitants believe in the Mikilo. A fantastic creature that, by people's stories, appears as a short guy with a big hat, red eyes and malformed face. And the best is that this inhabitants did direct contact, even declare to been beaten by him when they were drunk. But not only the Mikilo's presence surrounds the place, its people talks about witches, bad lights and men without heads. ¡Believe it or not. The big issue with The Monsters is the Argentine Northwest as mythological reserve. It's much more than a documentary about the fantastic stories which people tell. It's the investigation of the Myth and the possibilities to film it. To get into the mystery
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