The Wounded Years

This mini-series tells the story of young historian Ana Laura, using a narrative combination of fiction with documentary, archival footage, animation, and visual and sound recreation. She gradually discovers her origins as the granddaughter of a baby kidnapped 40 years ago. Tension and danger grow by the minute. Maybe Ana Laura should never have opened Pandora’s Box? Between the 1950s and the late 1980s, the Mexican state carried out a ‘dirty, low-intensity war’ against everything that the state itself considered subversive, left-wing, communist or simply against movements for social vindication, justice, anti-discrimination or against poverty and hunger. Those were the days of the Cold War, as well. Mexico was the ‘laboratory’ of torture and the techniques of silencing and disappearance applied by the military dictatorships of South America in the 1980s. Sticks, chains, rifles, bullets, abduction, torture, suffocation, disappearance, death and kidnapping of new-borns — that was the Mexican state’s response to those who raised their voices for a fairer country. This is the story they always wanted to hide! It is based on real events, narrated in The Wounded Years, by Fritz Glockner, a real protagonist of these terrible events.