SYNOPSIS

Ovidio González, a 79 year old shoemaker, wants to die. For five years he has been fighting against terminal cancer, suffering unbearable pain. He knows that in Colombia terminal patients like him have the right to euthanasia, so he tells his wife Alicia Quiceno –a practicing Catholic– that he wants an assisted death because he can ́t take it anymore. His wife, who has shared everything with him, even his profession, initially refuses to help him, but when she sees Ovidio´s irremediable suffering, she and her four sons (the engineer, the political cartoonist, the bio cosmetologist and the philosopher) decides to accompany him on his final journey. They shield him from insults from Catholic church representatives in Pereira like father Pacho, from the intervention of the Public Minister, Alejandro Ordóñez, and from an indolent health system faced for the first time with a man determined to exercise his right to die with dignity.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Iván Marín Díaz

• Production

  Iván Marín Díaz

• Referent

  David Ruíz Arias

• Sales

  David Ruíz Arias

• Sound designer

  Angelica Rodas

• Screenplay adapted from

  Iván Marín Díaz

• Camera

  Lucas Nieto Mogollón

• Script

  Carlos Rodríguez Aristizábal

• Editing

  Carlos Rodríguez Aristizábal

• Sound Editing

  Ándrés Toro Ríos

• Sound Mixing

  Ándrés Toro Ríos

• Film score composer

  Camilo Trejos Mejía

• Music used

  Camilo Trejos Mejía

• Text

  Gustavo Acosta Vinasco