When Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende in an extraordinarily violent coup on September 11, 1973, cultural advisor Ariel Dorfman was among the very few in Allende’s administration to survive. More than thirty years later, the renowned novelist and playwright returns to Chile with filmmaker Peter Raymont for a probing meditation on memory, exile, and democracy as he searches for a way to remember the dead. Together the two men revisit the scenes of Dorfman’s past, such as the balcony of the presidential palace where Allende made his last farewell, as Pinochet lies dying nearby under house arrest. Weaving previously unseen archival footage with affecting contemporary scenes and Dorfman’s vivid reminiscences, Raymont offers us an unforgettable story of repression and resistance.