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It is the 1980’s. Pilar is about 40, a middle-class wife and mother of three. Her completely ordinary life changes when she must face the greatest challenge ever: one of her children is addicted to heroin.
She feels guilt and shame at first. Then her son turns into a delinquent and her family suffers irreparable harm. At that point, Pilar becomes determined to do much more than just suffer in silence. Along with other parents, she begins the long hard fight against drug trafficking in Galicia, where the dealers go unpunished.
HEROINE is the story of a mere handful of mothers and fathers who wage an epic battle against those with political and economic power, as well as a large part of society, as they fight to prove that drug-addicts are victims.
It is also the story of Pilar and her son Fito. His youth goes to waste in prisons that people leave in worse shape than they entered, run by a justice system blind to the fact that these new prisoners are people with an illness, not delinquents. Fito and Pilar’s relationship is as stormy and contradictory as their struggle to survive.
HEROINE is the story of an extraordinary woman’s battle against those in power and society as a whole: this exceptional mother manages to change people’s outlook towards drug-addicts and drug trafficking. But above all, it is about what this whole struggle means to one family.
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