In ancient times, mermaids were part-bird, part-fish creatures with a woman's torso. "We know everything," they sang. They were hybrid creatures on the border between human and animal, and they had powerful and mysterious voices. Today, sirens are mainly sound signals from police cars, firefighters or disaster warnings. With a Chilean-Swiss cast, Manuela Infante, in playwriting and direction, explores what the ancient sirens have to tell us about our world in a state of alarm.

In ancient times, mermaids were multifaceted hybrid creatures—half-bird, half-woman—who lured sailors to their doom with their song. They stood on the border between humanity and nature, between knowledge and danger.

Manuela Infante creates a modern odyssey: a European engineer, who has been working in the Salar de Atacama for twenty years, observes unusual events that increasingly disturb his perception. In a polyphonic soundscape, the desert is presented as a ghostly space. With playful humor and sharp insight, the work illuminates the contradictions of a "green colonialism" in which the Global South bears the costs while the Global North benefits.