Summary:
David Pantaleón’s (Valleseco, Gran Canaria, 1978) feature film debut, Surrender the Machos, is a more than 100km journey on foot through a barren desert with seven of the most famous goats on the island of Fuerteventura and two brothers who hate each of them. other. Alejandro and Julio are siblings of the Cabrera family, the most respected farming and cheese-producing family in the north of the island. The head of the family, Don Guillermo, and his two children have not spoken to each other for many years. After the separation, the father’s care and business falls to his only daughter, Alicia. When the father dies, he puts a final will in his will so that his children can inherit the inheritance. Alejandro and Julio see the father’s imposition as punishment: they must travel on foot to the southern tip of the island with the seven men, while simultaneously handing him over to the historically hostile Cabrera family.