Yira Plaza O'Byrne

Machado, a Colombian living in France, is hired to return to his hometown of Medellín and steal an emerald. During the risky execution of his plan, he becomes entangled in a series of events that lead him to reconsider the ultimate goal of his mission.

Each year, 26-year-old María Yessenia Herrera, best-known as “Chena”, joins the traveling diaspora of peasants who move around Colombia working as hand-picking coffee harvesters. Traveling and working constitute the basis of her autonomy. She keeps a notebook in her luggage where she writes and reflects about her past and the life that she faces as a woman and as a mother who must provide for a household full of problems and scarcity from afar. Despite her youth, her body is weakening, calling into question her own idea of freedom.

In Yira's family album, there is only one picture of her father with his three children. Even if she did not notice it, he was an absent father. His union struggles, the congresses, threats and, later, attacks, turned Luis Alberto Plazas' life upside down, between Cartagena, Bogotá, Russia and Medellín. Today, with over 70 years, father and daughter live together by themselves for the first time, and she begins a quest to understand the political and fatherly side of this man.