She gave manicures in Iowa while her village burned in Guatemala. Memory is a loaded weapon.
Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than 200 people were killed in the small village of Rio Negro, after opposing the construction of a dam, sponsored by World Bank. She then tries to unveil the truth.
Direction
Flynn lets silence do the screaming
Editing
Iowa kitchens to massacre sites — devastating cuts
Writing
Denese's own words, no narration needed
Director
Patricia Flynn
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