To War

Cuban ex-combatant Andrés Rodríguez Rodríguez, alias Mandarria, lives off his memories of combat in Nicaragua from thirty years ago. Through a series of exercises of a possible war manual, it recreates all the soldier's abilities in an interesting game with the director Francisco Marise, and also with the spectator. The lonely life of this former military man, evoked in his most everyday gestures, also provides a dialogue on camera in which he explains his most existential opinions. Mandarria is concerned about reconnecting with his former comrades, probably to evoke the meaning that their lives had "for the war."