Acelo Ruíz Villanueva

Domingo is in love with his classmate, Fatima. To conquer her, he is determined to buy a mp3 player; a difficult task in the middle of Mexico´s Zapotec mountain side. On his quest he meets 'Charal', an alcoholic homeless man that decides to help him.

This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers, which exposes the criminal complicity between the police and military authorities, between the political and economic elites and criminal organizations in Mexico, which appear to be different forces, but respond to similar interests.

Waymas works in a subway repair worshop in Mexico City, while Tony sells chicken in a marketplace in Guadalajara. Both were part of the September 23rd Communist League, the larger urban guerrilla group in Mexico during the 1970s. On January the 22nd of 1976, both escaped prison through an elaborated military plan. They recount how they escaped and why they were fighting for then and now.

Oaxaca, October 29th, 2006. The Federal Police advances to take the city that has been in the hands of the popular insurgency for four months. Kresta and Anaclara, young supporters of the revolt, have been asked to pick up a radio transmitter that will supply the flimsy radio station of the movement.