A historical account of the succession of repressive and murderous governments that have plagued Guatemala, targeting the indigenous and peasant classes. This was accompanied and participated in by the United States. Beginning with the 1954 coup against President Jacobo Ardenz, and continuing through the rise of guerrilla movements as a response to this oppression.
Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it.
When his parents are killed by three men, Amar, Akbar and Anthony, Vijay teams up with a forest officer who was framed in a murder case to avenge their deaths.
Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, featuring interviews with mercenaries, soldiers, spies and civilian victims.
