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Cometierra Debuts on Prime Video, a Mexico-Set Magical-Realist Drama on Disappearances

The series adapts Dolores Reyes’s novel to frame a youth-led search for the missing through a visionary teen.

Overview

  • Prime Video premiered the seven-episode first season on Oct. 31 as an exclusive release across Mexico and Latin America.
  • The story centers on Aylín, a teenager who gains visions after eating earth and uses her ability to help find people who have disappeared.
  • Lilith Curiel leads the cast, with Yalitza Aparicio portraying Emma in a high-profile return to acting alongside Mabel Cadena, Gerardo Taracena and Harold Torres.
  • Creator Daniel Burman directs with Martín Hodara and Cris Gris, and singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade contributes the original theme, La Cometierra.
  • The adaptation relocates the 2019 Argentine novel to Mexico City’s outskirts as a multinational co-production foregrounding Latin American talent and engaging a crisis documented by Mexican authorities reporting 513 feminicides in the first seven months of 2025 and about 134,000 people missing.