"M̌xico, 1954. Tras abandonar una Guatemala golpeada por la intervenci̤n armada de la CIA, Ernesto, un joven m̌dico argentino, cruza la frontera de Chiapas hacia la Ciudad de M̌xico. No tiene trabajo y el dinero escasea, pero su plan es vivir ah̕ alg͠n tiempo antes de seguir su camino hacia Europa o China, lugares que suęa conocer. Trabajando como fot̤grafo, vendedor o guardia de seguridad, la capital mexicana lo transforma d̕a con d̕a y lo lleva a reencontrarse con Hilda Gadea, uno de sus grandes amores y con quien pronto se muda a un pequęo departamento en la colonia Cuauhťmoc. Cierta noche, en una de las cenas que la pareja suele organizar con amigos, comparten la mesa con Ra͠l, un joven cubano recǐn llegado al pa̕s que, al igual que su hermano Fidel, ha tenido que dejar la isla. A ra̕z de ese encuentro, el destino de Ernesto cambiar̀ para siempre al involucrarse en el plan de los hermanos Castro para liberar Cuba. En Al filo de la revoluci̤n, Juan Patricio Riveroll vuelve los ojos sobre un periodo poco conocido de la vida de Ernesto Guevara: los ąos clave en los que el člebre latinoamericano comenz̤ a definirse como guerrillero y libertador para, finalmente, convertirse en un ̕cono universal." -- page 4 of cover. "Mexico, 1954. After leaving a Guatemala hit by the armed intervention of the CIA, Ernesto, a young Argentine doctor, crosses the border from Chiapas to Mexico City. He has no job and money is scarce, but his plan is to live there some time before continuing on his way to Europe or China, places he dreams of visiting.Working as a photographer, salesman or security guard, the Mexican capital transforms him day by day and leads him to meet Hilda Gadea, one of his great loves and with whom she soon moves to a small apartment in the Cuauhťmoc neighborhood.One night, at one of the dinners that the couple usually organizes with friends, they share a table with Ra͠l, a young Cuban recently arrived in the country who, like his brother Fidel has had to leave the island. As a result of that encounter, Ernesto's destiny will change forever as he becomes involved in the Castro brothers' plan to liberate Cuba. In Al filo de la Revoluci̤n, Juan Patricio Riveroll returns to the eyes on a little-known period in the life of Ernesto Guevara: the key years in which the famous Latin American began to define himself as a guerrilla and liberator to finally become a universal icon." -- page 4 of cover.
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