VaramoVaramo is the story of how, on an ordinary day in 1923, a middle aged Panamanian public servant is paid his salary in counterfeit notes, and by the next morning has written a great avant garde poem. Consumed by anxiety about how to dispose of the notes, Varamo ricochets from one encounter to another: with a chauffeur suspected of leading a black uprising and a madman demanding repayment of an imaginary debt, a paranoid mother and a comatose cabinet