Álvaro Rodríguez Sánchez

태양풍이 강타한 중앙아메리카에는 사상 초유의 정전 사태가 5일이나 지속된다. 불시착으로 큰 상처를 입은 파일럿, 병원에서 위기를 겪는 딸을 찾아 먼 길을 떠난 할머니와 손자, 고층 고급 아파트에 갇힌 주인과 가정부, 15세 생일을 망치게 된 소녀 등 모두 이 위기의 상황을 헤쳐 나가기 위해 고군분투한다. 코스타리카, 엘살바도르, 과테말라, 온두라스, 니카라과, 파나마의 감독들이 의기투합한 6개국 공동제작 옴니버스 영화로, 정전을 모티브로 어둠 끝에는 항상 빛이 찾아온다는 삶의 진실을 따뜻한 시선으로 바라본다.

Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he's scared. Pedro's wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as "her new son" - even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family - until his sister appears.

When I turned 33 years-old, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadorian Civil War, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These people do not ask for revenge, all that they ask is for the truth to be known.

The story of the Maya People through four stories which allude to important moments in the in its history over the course of the last half millennium. The central protagonist in all these stories is a young woman named Maya who witnesses the invasion of her homeland and must run away to survive. Then living a nomadic existence as a refugee across the centuries she experiences the sufferings of her people resulting from the loss of her ancestral lands and increasingly her cultural traditions.

Tomas' 3-year-old daughter was kidnapped by soldiers during the war in Guatemala, and 20 years later, he learns that she is living only 150 miles away.

In Guatemala, violence is contagious. The neighbors of Villas de La Esperanza, in fear of an eventual invasion of those infected by violence, arm themselves and patrol nights, risking their lives for the safety of their families. But battling violence with violence only spreads the contagion, and the neighbors will realise that the greatest danger is not what lurks outside their secure gated community. The real danger lies within. In Guatemala violence is contagious, and we are all infected.