As their father's dissident newspaper draws increasing political fire from the ruling junta, a Latin American girl and her brother endure the consequences of his stand against tyranny.

While fighting the Sandinistas in El Salvador, a young American soldier uses hallucinogenic drugs to cope with his fear, making it difficult to determine what's real and what's not.

As an American man returns to his ancestral home in New Hampshire, he imagines how he might have spent the last three years if he had traveled the world and become a Latin American revolutionary.

An American visits his family in Spain as the Spanish Civil War erupts. Familial tensions emerge as he argues against war with his wounded cousin, who served for the Nationalists.

In 1961, two orphaned, Miami-based Cuban exiles invade their homeland as U.S.-backed soldiers—and as "long-lost" brothers. But only one returns.

In 1980s Peru, a dyslexic drug trafficker and grade school dropout and a wealthy, famous playwright labeled a terrorist for his play about killing the president form an unlikely relationship as cellmates in the notorious Collectors Prison of San Jacinto. The playwright convinces the men in their block to stage a performance of the play that landed him in jail, bringing a sense of comradery and unity; however, months after his release, he learns that the entire block, including his lover, was killed in the military suppression of a prison revolt.

Two enemies become inextricably linked when one chooses mercy.

Two men on opposites sides of a civil war wonder what they are fighting for as the flames of destruction spread across the country and alien forces are exposed.

Two American soldiers looking for work in Honduras decide to make the journey to a nearby port to get new shoes. But as they walk toward the town, they begin to realize that their prejudice about the locals has consequences.

When a sick father tells his son a new story of how he came into the United States from Mexico, different from the one the whole family was familiar with, an argument ensues between mother and father about the true history of their family.