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Violence is a fact of everyday life in Colombia, where the drug cartels have kept the country in an armed conflict for decades, and where almost all families have lost a loved one. But the unorthodox presidential candidate Antanas Mockus does all he can to reverse the vicious circle with an imaginative and positive election campaign. But his idealism is both his strength and his weakness in a corrupt political system, where his opponent plays a dirty game, and where the people have lost faith in being able to make a difference. Mockus is helped by the 22-year-old activist Katherine, who herself has lost her father in the bitter conflict. Now this has to end.
Andreas Dalsgaard, who previously portrayed Mockus in the film 'Bogotá Change', has followed Mockus's campaign. But can good ideas and an idealistic drive alone change an entire political culture, where violence is an institutionalised part of everyday life?