Off the pacific coast of Mexico remains the island of Capaluco. Once a busy vacation resort catering to passing cruise ships, now empty of humans. A curious sea creature (Siyokoy) emerges from the water after traveling a strong current from the Philippines. The same current that connected the Spanish Galleons. The film navigates through the architectural afterlife of the island, interacting with the spectral sounds. El Lado quieto is a sensorial journey between life and decay through colliding mythologies, surveying the afterlife of a post-human landscape. The spectres of tourism emerge within the process of film production. The filmmakers make audible their casual conversations in which they search for meaning and imagine different lifeforms of the future. It might be relevant that a pandemic was sweeping through the world throughout the films production. As a generation that experienced the false promises of progress and freedom, they also look into their own personal connections with ruins of Capaluco: The collapse of the neo-liberal economy in Argentina and the failed American dream to a Filipino immigrant.