Documenting the use of traditional plant-based medicine is a gateway to the diverse flora that the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people have long used and protected. But today, this consciousness linked to plants is in danger of disappearing. The epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic has moved to the Peruvian Amazon, endangering the lives of the indigenous Shipibo-Konibo people. With a collapsed public health system, no beds and no medical oxygen, the Shipibo-Konibo decided to self-organize. On May 15, 2020, they founded Comando Matico, a group of healers and local leaders dedicated to the use of traditional plants. In their flora they sought answers that the Peruvian government did not have, some relief from the symptoms produced by the virus. "Plants don’t leave us and we don’t leave plants", states Ronald Suárez, president of the indigenous organization Coshikox. Ronald lost his mother along with seven other relatives due to Covid-19. He assures that the disappearance of Shipibo-Konibo elders is very serious because with them goes the knowledge about the use of plants and the biodiversity of the Amazon. Their grandparents, as Ronald points out, are living libraries. The abrupt interruption of oral transmission can represent the end of a culture. Like Ronald, many Shipibo-Konibo consider this situation as a genocide by abandonment. At a time of darkness, it is of great importance to create a documentary project of the elders. An archive that will bring light to future generations. To raise awareness and understanding among the local public as well as the global public towards their living memory preservation.