Los abandonos

For decades, Leonard Fife has built a prestigious reputation as a documentary filmmaker in Canada, where he fled in the late 1960s as a deserter and fugitive after refusing to fight in Vietnam. That is at least the official version, the one that his admirers have always known, for whom the filmmaker is an irreproachable moral reference. Now, at seventy-eight years old, seriously ill, stunned by medication and facing imminent death, Fife accepts the proposal to answer an interview for a documentary centered on him as a tribute directed by a former disciple. Unexpectedly, the interview will take the form of a long and heartbreaking intimate confession. Because Fife needs, before the final blackout, to come clean to Emma -his wife, his partner for the last forty years- and tell her everything he would be unable to say without a camera: the truth of how he became the man she thinks he is.