Messages from earth ascend to the skies.

In July 2005 a huge explosion in the Guatemalan Capital leads to the discovery of the historic archive of the National Police. On the grounds of the today's Police Academy used to be located the island, the secret prison of notorious National Police squads.And here millions of documents appeared. Aided by an extraordinary visual end emotional interaction, the film traces the story of a tragedy and finds prove for inconceivable atrocities committed by the Security Forces. It is also a movie about a young generation of archive workers willing to free their society from the stranglehold of its own history.

On a Sunday of 1971 in Montevideo, a crowd waited anxiously to see a military show involving helicopter maneuvers. In a matter of seconds, the quiet weekend scene turned into a nightmare: two helicopters collided with each other, causing the death of several spectators. This is the first time that a Uruguayan documentary addresses these events, hidden for 40 years.

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city of Exu, which had dragged on since 1949 with violent deaths side by side. Shown as a Globo Repórter Documento, directed by Eduardo Coutinho, it featured testimonies by singer and composer Luiz Gonzaga, born in Exu, and members of both families. Even a federal intervention was suggested to end the conflict.

Documentary tells the drama experienced by bank employees who tried or committed suicide, squeezed between unattainable business goals, moral harassment and threats of dismissal.

A short actualité depicting the aftermath of an infamous accident in Costa Rica when an overcrowded train carrying mostly farmers and labourers derailed while crossing the Virilla River Canyon, killing at least 250.

As the first character to appear – the Mother – enters a square, gold-walled room, she blends so perfectly into the background that all perspective is lost. The visual order is disarticulated by the reflection of the gold to such an extent that even the woman skin loses its “hold” on solidity.

In an environment coloured with talcum powder, the Soldiers of Conception escort a Child-Judge as he walks backwards across the set. When he bumps into the Tables of the Law, reality is overturned and all interiors becomes exterior.

The Mother drags a lifeless girl from the bed in wich she was sleeping. Sloth, mortal sadness, is the word wich seals this woman’s destiny as she receives blows, luminous flows and sound stalagmites full in the face.

A new born child sitting on the stage, unaware of the place wich surrounds him, together with a mask which is teaching him the alphabet. The scene shifts constantly between fiction and the reality of fiction, swapping the point of view between the stage and the stalls.

The acceleration of the tragic eventually leads to a crash as three cars fall from the ceiling in an unexpected act which leaves room only for apnea.

Mussolini is surrounded by pictures torn from a history-generated dream which gradually merge into everyday reality. Harlequin is the servant of two masters. The permanence of the clergy in the Eternal City is placed under a great bell which swings without a clapper.

Le Maillon Théatre is a huge pavilion originally built for international exhibitions. A number of people are present, but nothing happens. Something may happen outside, on the other side of the window which separates the theatre from the car park, but inside the theatre, everyone is lost.

Divided in two parts, this episode focuses first on a Mother and a Child. The second episode focuses on Saint Paul, involved in a cruel gesture regarding the word and its ability to communicate.

A human figure dressed as a woman is anatomically exposed by means of a series of photographic poses. The show is seeped from beginning to end in darkness, an allusion to the photographic negative.