After the 15-year-old girl was accused of conspiracy to commit crimes committed by her ex-boyfriend. It seems that the law does not know the problems of friends. Roddy Valdez appears after the case and begins to deal with that tragedy in order to release his sister, who will follow the Obama administration's clemency. Roddy and his family are trying to work for the girl.
At some point during the documentary, the story of a family tragedy begins to find its activism tone, and Rudy's work to document Cindy's life... begins to be drawn as a universal story, which can change lives. [Full review in Spanish]
What unnecessary imprisonment does to families is often written about in abstract terms, but to see what it did to one specific family runs an emotional gamut that the patience of this heroically committed filmmaker does full justice to.
The Sentence is so committed to its concentration on emotion and heart that it's difficult not to get carried away and it feels almost churlish to quibble with the intellectual responses it barely aspires to.
We know that the camera isn't being held by a stranger but a beloved uncle, which imbues each exchange with not only affection but also an irreproducible immediacy.
