April and the Gardener

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A life of radical deed entwines with two lives of observation and inquiry. Blood doesn't wash out and old crimes endure to provoke consequences far down the road.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Juan Cano's mother took him from El Salvador to Los Angeles as an infant. He became an outstanding student and athlete bound for Stanford upon graduation from high school. But the spring of 1985 brings cataclysmic upheaval that sets Juan on a path back to his war-ravaged homeland. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ten years of peril ebb into a lazy sojourn in Antigua Guatemala where Juan meets filmmaker and UC Berkeley professor April Tashima. There in the seemingly peaceful colonial-era capital he is reunited with an old friend from the Salvadoran hills archeologist Joe Guinness. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Juan ends his time in the shadow of three volcanoes with an act having to do with his years as a revolutionary and with a wantonly smashed musical instrument. It is planned in a way that will allow April to film it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The stories of individual women and men form the weft of history. In </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>April and the Gardener</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> separate destinies are braided into cables from which hang bridges between worlds.</span></p>