154 kids flew alone to a country they'd never seen, carrying hope heavier than their luggage.
In 1983 a group of 154 children aged 3 and 17 years old traveled alone from Europe to Montevideo. They were children of political exiles from Uruguay, who were unable to come back to their own country; they sent their kids to know their relatives and home country. That human sign, charged with a political message, took part in children’s identity development. Nowadays, six of them still remember that day, when a crowd received them singing all together “your parents will come back”.
Direction
Pessi lets silence do the talking—devastating restraint.
Editing
Past and present bleed together like unresolved grief.
Director
Pablo Martínez Pessi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Uruguay's military dictatorship (1973-1985) forced an estimated 350,000 citizens into exile—this film captures a rarely discussed government program specifically reuniting children with estranged relatives.
Director Pessi spent four years locating participants; several initially refused, still fearing political repercussions decades later.
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