We Are Still The Same

In 1973, after Pinochet's coup, Chile was one of the most dangerous places in the world. Only embassies were safe. Based on a true story, when a Brazilian on the run from the Chilean army takes refuge in the Argentine embassy, he will try to survive while his father tries to save him. Gabriel could be just another young son of a very wealthy shoe manufacturing and export family, born and raised in southern Brazil, who would eventually take over the family business. But no. Gabriel decided in the mid-70s that he would fight for the truth and the freedom he believed in. Freedom didn't fit a place of intolerance. Gabriel was a victim of the 1973 coup d'état in Chile and ended up in the Argentine Embassy in Chile, along with hundreds of others. There, life unfolded in the primitive way that only captivity can. Fernando, Gabriel's father and a visionary in his field, disagrees. But he respects his son's point of view enough to travel to Chile during the dark days of the Pinochet government to try to rescue him. A movie about the need for tolerance, about the fight for freedom in every sense, the freedom that makes us feel alive. It's about fighting to survive in the most adverse conditions that human beings can be placed in.