Focussing on the topic of women’s rite of passage, this documentary film portrays the period of isolation a girl from the Colombian Wayuu tribe must go through to be fully recognized as a woman. The newly menstruating Wayuu girls are isolated for twelve months. Filled with feminine symbols such as water and the moon, the film depicts how each girl is locked in a dark cabin for the period during which the moon waxes and wanes twelve times and during this time she weaves hemp cloth day and night just like Arachne in Greek mythology. But the film reveals that this teenage girl’s growing into the “daughter of wind, sea and rain” is not merely for the transition to mature womanhood. The visual beauty achieves a level of irony as it considers the uncertain future of the girl, who must be an untainted bride. The process of 12-year-old Pili going through the rite of being reborn is also the director’s lively exploration into the ancient traditions left in the modern society. (RHEE Soue-won)