Chile 2017. Samuel is in front of the Museum of Memory of Santiago de Chile is there to meet a girl, Gladys (Nathalia Aragonese)

"You're just like your mother" are the only words he says, before they eyes of blacks Nathalia come back to Aragonese 1983 to interpret his mother's, your name is Gladys, but everyone calls "the French" lives in a slum in Santiago de Chile during the years of dictatorship Pinochete, with his mother, the small Gladys and the same common area with nearby elderly and children without parents. Samuel is an American missionary and will be hosted by Gladys during his tenure, to bring through the word of God, help and support to the oppressed of the dictatorial regime, day after day, Samuel enters their homes to bring messages of faith, photographing their faces and the places marked by hardship and poverty. Spend time with the little Vladi, character brilliant and moving in the same way, but it is especially attracted by Gladys, by the beauty of the forms of his body and his way of doing, so different and far from his. Unrelated to the diversity of ideologies that distinguishes them, the two forge a passionate physical relationship involving Samuel in the activities of the antigovernment movement along with Gladys and other militants, that in those years gives a strong and violent response to the oppression of dictatorship, filming of the protest demonstrations and is being held in places of detention and torture that Pinochete used to silence any kind of action against the regime.

After six years of absence Gonzalo Justiniano bully back to the years of dictatorship, enriching the film with video and archive images and many unpublished shots by himself that over a historical eye, make the film a strong human side. 124 minutes of engagement with the history of the Chilean dictatorship and the people who lived it.

Amber Fur