Synopsis

In 1998, when Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was tasked with prosecuting the first criminal cases against General Augusto Pinochet, the country's former dictator, few anticipated significant consequences. Guzmán had been a supporter of Pinochet's 1973 coup, a campaign framed as an anti-Communist crusade that resulted in the deaths or disappearance of President Salvador Allende and countless others. The filmmakers chronicle the judge’s gradual immersion into a harrowing investigation, a descent he des