It was during a visit to the church in her grandmother’s native village in Cinquera, El Salvador that Tatiana Huezo was inspired to make this film about the legacy of the civil war that tore the country apart from 1979 to 1991. The call to war had been launched from Cinquera. Pieces of a combat helicopter and portraits of young villagers who were killed decorate the church,  acting as  emblems of this violent history… Huezo filmed the village, the survivors, surrounding mountains, forests, and caves, and collected their memories of enduring, witnessing, and surviving in this marvelously edited film.

The Immortal tells the story of the Rivera family,  torn apart by war in Nicaragua. Trapped in the crossfire between the Sandinistas and the Contras, the Contras seized the father, two teenage sons and the teenage daughter. The mother managed to escape with the youngest son before the Contras burned their house. The family was separated until the end of the conflict. Their reunion confronted  the open wounds of the war, and all that continues to tear apart the fabric of Nicaraguan society.