Populism responds to moments of abrupt social change, such as modernization in Latin America or the 2008 financial crisis. As a logic of political action, it constructs its discourse from an invocation to the "people," who constitute themselves,…

Olga, a Venezuelan woman who has lived in London for years, returns to Venezuela to bury her sister Carla, who has just been murdered, just in the week that Hugo Chávez's death is announced. The Accident tells the story of this return, and of the…