“What I am telling you here, you know, I never told anyone. I didn’t tell my own brothers, and I certainly didn’t tell my children.”

Secretos de Lucha. The journey of a young woman, who travels to Uruguay following her father's steps in search of what really happened to her family during the darkest years of the Uruguayan dictatorship. Through her father’s eyes and his seven sisters and brothers’ confessions, she tries to understand why they kept their memories silent for so long. From the French Bask country to South America, she follows their steps and explores their individual struggles, whether these were through union or legal political actions, or through clandestine activities within an urban guerrilla organisation called the Tupamaros. A silence that has left so many wounds yet to be healed.

This documentary invites the audience to share in an intimate perspective of a family’s struggle against oppression, and gives a voice to those who were both witnesses and pawns in a story that was stolen from them.