Synopsis

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

Juliana Fanjul views the journalist through an agile, intimate and reflective 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 also a well-thought out 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 perspectives allow the filmmaker to write a painful love letter to a country fragmented by corruption, violence and drug trafficking.