Aldo Francia’s classic liberation theology film is one of the few pieces of left-wing cinema produced during Chile’s short socialist period to have survived intact. The film follows a young Catholic priest who becomes more and more incensed by the indifference shown by both his older colleagues and his wealthy parishioners towards urban Chile’s working poor. When a strike breaks out at a local factory owned by a member of his congregation, the priest attempts to mediate. However, when he is rebuffed, he begins to recognize that words may not be enough to solve Chile’s deepening social problems, setting him on a path towards increasingly radical forms of action.