Top Cast
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Bérénice Bejo
Maria
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Matheo Labbe
Marco
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Leonardo Ortizgris
Miguel
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Julieta Egurrola
Eugenia
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Guie Cuyun
Luis
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Fermín Martínez
Armando
Overview
A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause
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