Alfonso Bauer Paíz is 83 years old, lawyer and living in Guatemala. For more than half a century he has been fighting for social justice.
He is a man of imperturbable principles. As a convinced socialist and freemason he defends his country against intervention and dictatorships. He is persecuted, forced to exile several times which lead him to the foci of Latin American history.
He puts himself completely at the service of Latin American revolution in Chile, Cuba and Nicaragua. But the price he pays for his ideals is high. Wives and daughters die an untimely death …
After the end of civil war in Guatemala he returns as legal counsel of the tens of thousands of indigenous refugees returning from Mexico to Guatemala – into a country shattered by war.
Four years later the first free elections after decades of dictatorship take place. And he succeeds in entering into Congress.
But an old general, responsible for the genocide of the Mayan people, commandeers this.
The long battle for justice seems to be lost. But Alfonso Bauer Paíz is convinced that nothing happens in vain.
The film tells the life story of a restless man and his ideals.
A history of the Latin American revolution.