On July 11, 2021, tens of thousands of Cubans peacefully took to the streets across the island to protest the repression and corruption they have suffered for more than six decades. Cubans demanded freedom and chanted “down with the communism,” singing Patria y Vida or Fatherland and Life, a powerful message against the communist rule. The Cuban Communist regime responded to the largest civil protests seen in decades with further repression and violence. More than a thousand political prisoners have been documented by human rights organizations.
This documentary gives a voice to the families of some of these political prisoners. Some of these freedom fighters have suffered more than a decade of political imprisonment, and torture in Cuba, such as José Daniel Ferrer, a Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom laureate. Others, like Sayli Navarro, first suffered the communist repression when her father, Felix, was condemned to prison in 2003, to then joined her father in prison in 2021.
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