Metal and Melancholy

Heddy Honigmann’s documentary focuses on the travels and stories of taxi drivers in Lima, Peru in the early 1990’s. Following an economic collapse, many middle-class professionals have taken to using their own cars and moonlighting as taxi-drivers at night. As the drivers, who include a teacher, a policeman and a film actor amongst others, steer through Lima’s decaying streets, they reveal their relationship with their cars, their country and their families. —oeff.jp