Adoquín Video Digital

Martín García, a small island located at the entrance to the world's largest estuary, the Río de la Plata, has been the scene of exploits and hardships, poetry and suffering, epic poems and exiles. Its secrets will be revealed with the help of a journalist, a photographer, and a cartoonist.

In July 1982, a month after the capitulation of Argentine troops in the Falklands war with Great Britain, GENTE magazine published on the cover a photo of a boy who had sent a letter and a chocolate to an anonymous soldier. His letter and chocolate would never reach the recipient, the chocolate being later sold at a kiosk in the Argentinian town of Comodoro Rivadavia. 38 years later, Gustavo Vidal, the chocolate boy, embarks on a journey to reconstruct the story that moved, in its time, Argentines deceived by the press before, during and after the armed conflict with the United Kingdom.

On June 29, 1973, an attempted coup d'état took place in Chile. Leonardo Henrichsen, an Argentine cameraman and correspondent for Swedish Television, filmed his own death at the hands of a military patrol. These images foreshadowed the true face of state terrorism.