Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

In a sun‑scorched stretch of Texas that locals have named Sodom, a hapless census taker named Manuel is sent to count the people who live in the barren valleys and rocky ravines of the Santa Magdalena. He can’t read a map, but he knows the land, its ghost‑white slag plains and the stubborn chaparral that clings to the hills. Armed with a mule named Mula and a stack of paper forms, Manuel sets out to fulfill a seemingly simple bureaucratic task—though the instructions are oddly vague, and the terrain is anything but ordinary.

As Manuel wanders deeper into the desolate landscape, the line between humans, animals, and the strange “little people” the officials mention begins to blur. His earnest, sometimes comic attempts to follow the census orders reveal a world where every stone, cactus and creaking mule holds a story, and where a single misunderstanding could change countless lives. The opening sets a vivid, darkly humorous tone that invites listeners to follow Manuel’s reluctant quest through a landscape that feels both mythic and unmistakably real.