The next day they drive to a larger town where there is an open air market. He doesn't reveal his discovery to Domingo, nor to Conejo. That night, while Domingo is sleeping, Fuentes examines his pistol and finds it empty. He orders Fuentes to identify him as his chauffeur if they run into a barricade, and to account for his bandages by saying that he's been bitten by a snake. Domingo reveals that he is a deserter from the Army, without a home or destination. They set out in the morning in Fuentes' car with the tires from the stolen car. Mistrustful of the doctor's drugs, he forces Fuentes to operate on him without an anaesthetic. Not a single car passes until nightfall, when Domingo returns driving a stolen car and with a bullet in his rib. Fuentes asks for his help, Domingo pulls out a pistol and robs him and Conejo. Later, a young indigenous man, Domingo (Damián Delgado) appears walking alone. When they return to the car, they discover that someone has stolen the tires. They were "Banana People," says Conejo, persecuted and murdered by "men with guns," and now no one lives here. Fuentes to a burnt and deserted village at the edge of the jungle, Caras Sucias, but there is no trace of Fuentes' student doctor, Echevarria, or any other inhabitants. Since there are no hotels in the area, they spend the night in the school. They arrive at the abandoned school, the site of torture and murders over the years, and the place where Dr. Conejo leads Fuentes to a secret cemetery in the woods, where the soldiers from the army have dumped the bodies of their enemies as an example to the people. Conejo knows the areas the doctor wants to visit and a wary friendship starts up between the boy and the old man. The boy became a kind of troop mascot until the army left him in this village, dying of hunger. Conejo is a child of a rape, abandoned by his mother. In the next town, Tierra Quemada, in an area of coffee plantations, Fuentes has no success finding his second student, Arenas, but he meets a young boy, Conejo (Dan Rivera Gonzalez). That night at his hotel he runs into the tourists again and it is clear that they are on a trip very different than his. Fuentes is determined to find his other students. When Fuentes tells his story to a local police captain, the officer replies that there are guerrillas in the area, and it would be dangerous to continue farther from the capital. Finally, an old blind woman tells him that Cienfuegos was killed: he was burned to death by "men with guns." But no one in the village responds to Fuentes' questions, and they hide in their houses when he approaches. Driving his son's car, Fuentes crosses a dry plain, encountering only an Old Salt Vendor, some truck drivers and a pair of North American tourists, Harriet (Kathryn Grody) and Andrew (Mandy Patinkin) spending their vacation visiting the area's Indian ruins.įuentes reaches Cienfuegos' village, Rio Seco, in Sugarcane country. Still, the next morning, the doctor begins his voyage. That night, Fuentes tests his heart with his stethoscope. But Bravo will only say, "Go find Cienfuegos" (another of Fuentes' students). He follows him to a squalid slum in the outskirts of the city, Los Perdidos, where Bravo operates a "pharmacy." Fuentes asks Bravo why he isn't in the countryside working among the poor. One day in the market in the Capital City where he lives, Fuentes sees Bravo (Roberto Sosa), who was the best student in the program. Fuentes announces his intention to visit his students in the mountains, his children and his most prominent patient, an army general, try to dissuade him. He considers the greatest achievement of his life, his "legacy," to be his participation in an international health program in which he trained young students to work as doctors in the poorest villages. Humberto Fuentes (Federico Luppi), a wealthy doctor who is approaching retirement, has never paid attention to the realities of the political life of his country. "He can put his hand inside of your body and tell what your sickness is.He's a doctor." A native woman, cooking at a campfire, tells her young daughter about a man from the city.
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