Now I Surrender

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In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a Mexican woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband's ranch. A federale of the new Mexican Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he's on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to manoeuvre the most legendary of Apache warriors into surrender. In our own day, a writer and his family travel through the region in search of the traces of history. Part epic, part spaghetti Western, the story weaves past and present, and myth and history, into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty - and a homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory. Show more