A documentary film about the amazing life of lawyer, activist and politician Alfonso Bauer Paiz, a legendary figure in the recent history of Latin America having direct experience of nearly all the modern revolutionary movements in the region and still politically active at age 81. Friends, family members, and fellow activists are interviewed and tell about their relations with this central figure of Guatemalan politics and revolution. It won first prize at the Latin American Cinema Film Festival, New York, 2005.

Alfonso Bauer Paíz is an 84 year old lawyer who lives in Guatemala. For more than half a century he has fought for social justice. His search for dignity for his country, leads him to defend it against intervention, military regimes and the unscrupulous multinational companies. He is constantly persecuted and forced into exile, where he is simultaneously witness and protagonist in the revolutions in Latin America. But the price of his ideals is high: His friends, his past wives and children do not live long lives. In order to end the long armed conflict in Guatemala, he returns from his lengthy exile with hundreds of thousands of war refugees. After decades of dictatorship, he takes part in the first free elections, and in 2000 he is elected as a representative of congress, a seat which he previously took up in his youth. But in the present day a general presides over congress. Alfonso Bauer Paíz's long struggle seems lost. However the socialist and freemason is convinced that his work has not been futile.

The film covers the ideals and legacy of an indomitable man who brings life to both Latin America's past and present.