Lay brother Alonso
lives in a small village on the Chiapas plateau torn by the war between the
Mexican government troops and the Tzotzil minority. One night he has a
premonitory dream: he is forced to run away together with thousands of other
Maya Indians, but manages to reach his family's village where he rescues 330
hostages of a paramilitary band. When he wakes up he has to face a sad reality:
45 inhabitants of a neighbouring village have been massacred. Alonso begins his
quest for truth and justice together with Maria, a survivor of the slaughter,
to honour the memory of his fellow citizens who died for independence.
