Synopsis

His words came first, then the killing bullet, and finally silence. Thus begins the documentary about Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, the voice of the voiceless in El Salvador, the pastor who, in the midst of one of the crudest civil wars on the continent, dared to say that the mission of the Church was to identify with the poor. Monsignor Romero was assassinated on March 24, 1980, in one of those long-announced crimes, an aspect worked in The Open Sky as an inevitable fate given what was happening in El Salvador at the time.