Gringa

Loosely based on the dramatic events surrounding controversial American activist Lori Berenson, a powerful and stirring chronicle of youthful idealism gone horribly awry.It is 1998 and Leonora Gelb, a recent Stanford grad, has a world of opportunity open before her. Traveling to Peru to work for an NGO, she falls into the orbit of a Marxist guerilla group, turning the cushy world Gelb has known on its head. But she is also an activist and a radical thinker, as mobilized as she is studious.

Ten years later, the task of finding the truth falls to Andres--an American expat on a journalistic assignment to discover just who is the real Leonora. After a bloody government raid, Gelb is sentenced to life in a Peruvian prison, a story that breaks headlines back home even as American media outlets are at odds to explain how she has ended up there. Activist or