It’s the 26th of September in Guerrero, Mexico, 2014. A group of 80 students from the Escuela Normal de Ayotzinapa between the ages of 15 and 25 years old begin their journey to Mexico City with their pockets empty but hopeful that they will arrive to participate in the mobilizations of the 2nd of October. The idea: to commemorate the more than 300 students murdered by the army in Tlatelolco in 1968, a massacre that many said was to change Mexico forever, or at least until Ayotzinapa.
Their journey takes them from Ayotzinapa to the nearby city of Iguala, where the students occupy several busses that they would then use to arrive at their final destination, the Plaza de las Tres Culturas.
However, on their way out of Iguala, the students are seemingly attacked by corrupt police agents (federal, state and local police), members of the military, and members of local drug cartels, in a struggle that ends in the forced disappearance of 43 and the murder of 3. It is at this point that the consensus over what happened that night ends, and 5 years later, the parents of the Ayotzinapa 43 are still searching for truth and justice.
