"Venimos de muy lejos" pays homage to the immigrant ancestors of the people of the neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The piece is less an anthropological or historical portrait of an era than a theatrical celebration of a neighborhood's collective memory, a carnivalesque depiction of fictional characters from the bit and pieces of real and fictional stories, legends and traditions of the "Old Countries" that still haunt and feed the neighborhood's collective imaginary. The piece is, as theater group Catalinas Sur points out, a tribute to their ancestor's hopes, sufferings and yearnings as uprooted migrants, to the solidarity and daily toils at play in the neighborhood's public spaces, to the joy of their songs and their celebrations, to their love and their struggle for survival.