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During the dark times of Pinochet's dictatorship, Lelo, Perejil, and Rogelio were forced to secretly bury hundreds of unidentified corpses. Over time they have decided to share their memories for the first time, with Sergio, the youngest gravedigger in the cemetery.
After the coup d’état in 1973, employees at the Vicariate for Solidarity began the risky road to save the lives of the prosecuted and find the fate of the detained. With time, they understood there was a politics of extermination in place against the dissidents, and that, in order to decipher its functioning and those directly responsible, they had to turn into a sophisticated intelligence team.
The murder of three communist professionals in March 1985, was one of the crimes with the biggest impact on the public eye during the Chilean dictatorship. Manuel Guerrero Ceballos was one of the victims and that day the life of his son Manuel changes forever.
This documentary offers a portrait of the photographer Sergio Larrain based on the mark that he left during the course of his existence: photographs, testimonies, philosophical texts, and in particular, thousands of letters that are the gateway to his inner world and the mysteries of his life and work.
A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture, conversations with family members, a trip to southern Chile cities, and an actress who re-enacts the photo, we see the existing prejudice against indigenous people.
