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This episode tells the story of the life of the patriot José Miguel Carrera, of whom Neruda said "he was the first one to bring Freedom to our land, without kings or tyrants". With his charisma and his determination he hurried the changes and converted Chile into an independent nation, but he also gained very powerful enemies who would persecute him until the end of his days. Carrera is a man who at the age of 25, in 1812, he was already head of the government and army chief. This is the man who, ruined and prosecuted, crossed the sea in order to have and interview with the USA president and managed to get a fleet to get back to the fight. Carrera was a husband and a father who suffered due to the situation his family was undergoing. He was also the montonero's boss, the Argentinean provinces nightmare, who went towards the mountains in order to take revenge for his brothers' murder and to restore his good name. The prince of the Road approaches the life of one of the most controversial characters in Chilean history; an extraordinary man who devoted his life to the fight for freedom.

At the dawn of the 19th century, a whole generation of extraordinary men fights to get rid of the Spanish yoke and turn Chile into an independent nation. Among these brave men a legendary figure rose: Manuel Rodríguez. Passionate and brilliant, the lawyer Rodríguez became the attorney of the local authority, deputy, minister for several government departments and supreme director by popular acclaim. However, he wasn't as successful in any of his official positions as he was in his role as a spy and guerrilla commander, leading the resistance against the enemy. They put a price on his head and Rodriguez became one of the most wanted men in the country, but he managed to escape his trackers and made a vital contribution to the patriotic cause, thus gaining the people's respect and admiration. After the victory over the royalists, his immense popularity and his fidelity to the ideals that inspired the revolution made him become an uncomfortable character for those in charge of the country's government. They tried to take him out of the picture on several occasions by bribing him with special posts, money and privileges until he was cowardly assassinated in Til-Til in May 1818, at the age of 33. A man died; a legend was born.

September 19th, 1981, Balmaceda writes his political will. He has been locked up for 20 days in the Argentinean embassy since the day his troops were defeated on the so called "Placilla disaster". He is a president without a government. A man far away from his family to whom the only thing left is a piece of paper written by him with where he would try and defend his ambitious project from the judgement of time. The president is upset. He looks back on his life and tries to understand how his declarations for the development of the country resulted on one of the bloodiest social outbreaks in the history of Chile. The president will not see the dawn. Balmaceda approaches one of the most hectic periods of the Chilean national history. The film has the point of view of a man who aimed at a lot more than his time was ready to accept. It is a tale of heroic deeds and achievements, from the view of a patriot over a country that was awakening to its reality as a nation.