Hymn of the angel standing on one paw explores, through the eyes of a teenager, the harsh but exhilarating struggle for survival, his learning about love, the rendezvous in dreams and in wakefulness with a tenacious phantasmagoria: the countless angels of the obsessive biblical repertoire familiar to him. All this within an intense and moving story, drama but also picaresque, the hope and strength of those who rise above the ruins of abandoned Chilean saltpeter mines to claim from the angel the right to walk on their own two feet.