ita, a member of the Afro-Mexican community in Chacahua, – in the Costa Chica region of Oaxaca– supports her family by fishing. She is a strong woman looking for opportunities that can help her grow on a personal level so she can contribute to the welfare of her community.

On the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Juchitán, Oaxaca is the town of Álvaro Obregón. Here, the members of a Binnizá (Zapotec) community have been under constant threat since a transnational corporation decided to install a wind farm in the sea without the consent of the community. People of the Sea and the Wind recounts how the inhabitants perceive the wind farm and the way in which they are ready to defend their community.

Magda, a 23-year-old midwife’s apprentice, has a dream where she is assigned a mission: to contribute to fight the violence women in San Mateo del Mar, her hometown and a community of fishermen, suffer.