Synopsis

After being a fired at the radio station she worked on for revealing an important corruption case in Mexico, Carmen Aristegui became much more persistent on her fight for making good and honest journalism. The government might not be in her side, but her research team and the 18 millions radio listeners are and miss to hear a voice silenced by the same corrupt system she exposed.

Juliana Fanjul views the journalist through an agile, intimate and reflexive perspective, allowing us to really get to know Carmen on a daily basis and portraying her as a persevering, strong and charismatic woman. The film not only presents this journalist’s portrait but a well-thought essay that comes as a result of all the time Fanjul and Aristegui spent together. The use of images from the city and the intertwining of perspective allow the filmmaker to write a painful love letter to a country fragmented by corruption, violence and drug trafficking.