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The character types in these testimonies are everyday people - a chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, entrepreneur, mime - simply trying to lead their lives and prevent violence. Yet undoubtedly, violence has a way of intruding on the lives. A cosmetic surgeon finds himself forced into carrying out a risky method on the narco killer. A teacher struggles to safeguard love-struck students whose forbidden love has put them in mortal risk. A painter's freewheeling ways land him in the rear of a kidnapper's car. Over and over, the lines between "ordinary life" and cartel assault are shown to be paper thin, with tragic results. Though the lives of Mexico's character types are effected by the corrupt and dangerous subculture of their country, these are a lot more than simple "crime stories". These are complicated and deeply moving stories that utilize general and enduringly powerful themes: love and damage, religion, family associations, government abuse, sexual personal information, professional ambition, tumor; they present us to character types that feel totally recognized in their mankind.
