In his non-academic lecture, Diego Aramburo presents a peculiar historical document: the film about Bolivia's last death penalty.

It took place in 1917 and was captured on celluloid. The short silent film, reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin, was initially lost after a brief period of censorship in the ruins of an old cinema, then found by the Bolivian National Film Archive, where it disappeared into the archives for decades as a national treasure.
In the 2000s, it reappeared in the global sewage system of the internet. There it was fished out and finally published by the National Film Archive of Chile—its great rival.

The story of this strange artifact is the starting point for Aramburo's chain of thoughts about the document and its tenacious, cockroach-like nature.