Michael Love

Born in Mexico just after the Second World War, Gaby, as she's called, is for the first several years of her life thought to be either a vegetable or, to quote her doctor, a child of normal intelligence "locked inside a body that cannot respond." Her maid notices that she is resisting food and realizes that she can control her foot. From there Gaby learns to write, study and becomes an artist, writer and activist. (imdb)

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government.

A woman sets out to protect her niece from the sexual abuse she herself suffered as a child at the hands of her father - a move that risks tearing her family apart.