An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 years old.

Mario y los perros

Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain, March 3, 1976. After several months of protests demanding decent working conditions, a general strike is called. Thousands of workers gather at the church of San Francisco while a hundred heavily armed policemen wait to act.

A March to Remember

In 1971, Cuban poet, Heberto Padilla, was arrested by state security accused of counterrevolutionary. Faced with international pressure, the Cuban government forced him to incriminate himself in the purest Stalinist style.