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The Most Feared Skin

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After more than two decades abroad, Alejandra returns to Cusco to settle her family's affairs, only to discover that the father she believed dead is alive — imprisoned for his ties to the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Determined to understand the man who abandoned her as a child, she travels into the Andes to confront him, unraveling a family history bound to Peru's most painful decades.

Refusing to reduce its characters to victims or perpetrators, the film asks what reconciliation can mean for a generation still living in the shadow of political violence.

Directed by Joel Calero, The Most Feared Skin is the second installment in Calero's Trilogy of Memory, a planned political-film trilogy focused on the years of internal conflict and political violence that shook Peru between 1980 and 2000. The other two titles in the trilogy are One Last Afternoon and Family Album.

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