On September 6, 1522, eighteen famished and ill men arrived at the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Cádiz aboard the Victoria, a battered, leaking ship. After three years of hardship, they had achieved something unprecedented: returning to the same port from which they had departed, always sailing in the same direction — east to west — discovering the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and completing the first circumnavigation in history. This graphic mockumentary, in which Darío Adanti blends travel chronicle with real and imagined sailor legends and songs, is both a reimagining of that first voyage around the Earth and an homage to the seafarers of the 16th to 19th centuries who dared to explore those waters under extreme conditions.
