Tadeo’s mind is a maze. Tadeo was released from aseven-month prison sentence in Mexico City’s ReclusorioSur just hours before the call for the filming of thisdocumentary. In the first episode of Death WithoutEnd, a documentary series about addictions, Tadeohad made himself a promise to try to rebuild his lifeand overcome his addictions. A year later Tadeo wasarrested for selling drugs and unlawful gun possessionoutside the Bellas Artes Palace. This documentary ispart of a year-long trilogy about young people who comefrom a dysfunctional family with generational rootsin addictions. Tadeo struggles to break free from hisaddictions, his mental prison and his hallucinations.He seems to succeed but always ends up saying tohimself: I’ll be back. The structure of this documentarygoes through Tadeo’s mind in which he is confusedbetween the jail, the idea and images he has in mindabout jail, his images when he is high and all at thetime he tries to sleep in his grandmother’s home. Thisdocumentary explores all those worlds in Tadeo’s mind.After a year of working with him he went back to prison.We see that sometimes it is pretty hard to save yourselffrom hard situations and addictions. Even if you are asmart guy and a good fella as Tadeo is.
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