Dilemmas suffered by Peruvian peasants trapped between government troops and guerrillas during the 1980s and 1990s are framed through the eyes of a boy in Fabrizio Aguilar's debut. Peruvian Oscar ...

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12.