A Century of Promises

<p><strong>El Salvador 1917: </strong>Lawyer Juan Alonso Hernandez arrives in San Salvador to discover that coffee is the new gold. While fighting against the exploitation of coffee plantation workers he gets ousted to a small rural town that is on the brink of social unrest. There he meets Isabel Castaneda a cheerful and beautiful woman who is left to raise their son alone when Juan is imprisoned as a political prisoner.</p><p><br></p><p>Alone and in desperate circumstances Isabel turns to Juan's younger brother Marco a soldier who is an accomplice in the largest massacre in El Salvador's history. When Isabel has a second son with him it sets off a dramatic saga that stretches over a hundred years following four generations of the Castaneda family as their beloved El Salvador is forever changed by political corruption dictatorships civil war and mass exodus.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Will the family rise above the violent conflict in the country or be torn apart and destroyed by it?</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Inspired in part by real figures events and personal experiences <em>A Century of Promises</em> tells the story of how today's El Salvador came to be through the eyes of the Castaneda family.</p>