Venezuela’s 2007 Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1960s Venezuela, Marcela and her couisin Teo live with their grandparents while waiting for their parents, guerilla revolutionaries, to return. Together the children spin many imaginative fantasies involving superheroic revolutionaries, even as their parents’ struggle simply to survive. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, Mariana Rondón’s film is greatly enlivened by her inventive visual technique, making use of vintage news- reels and travelogues, digital animation and still photography to tell a story that has as much to do with memory and imagination as the hard facts of history.