Películas salvadoreñas

Roque Dalton was the Bertolt Brecht of Central America. His live was an adventure story, his political struggle against the Salvadorian dictatorships brought him into jail various times. Twice he could escape from the death penalty. His poetry is an exciting shower of sparks in the realm between political utopia and sensuality, between revolutionary belief and lust for heresy. He was the son of a Salvadorian nurse and a North American millionaire, a descendant of the legendary Dalton brothers of the American west and became throughout Latin America a symbol for the fight against social injustice. He helped establish one of his countries first guerrilla organizations and was murdered by his comrades.

A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.

A group of veterans "guerrilla and soldiers" faces hatred from the past and a prevailing grief when they return, 25 years later, to the neighborhoods of San Salvador where they fought the final battle of the Salvadoran Civil War.