Synopsis

Award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada (known for *Al Otro Lado* and *POV 2006*) weaves together past and present, drawing upon audio recordings passed down from her grandmother, who was the daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles. Calles, a revolutionary general, ascended to the Mexican presidency in 1924 and was then known as El Jefe Máximo, or Foremost Chief. History remembers him now as El Quema-Curas, the Priest Burner, and as a dictator who maintained power through subservient presidents until h