Julian Perez explores the limits of melodrama and social literature in two stories, El valor de una mujer and Viva la patria, set in Argentina in the seventies. It features characters who try to survive in a hostile environment and learn to fight against oppression and injustice. El valor de una mujer tells the life and loves of a young prostitute who leaves that environment and starts a leftist party. Seeking freedom from the past is redeeming while demeaning herself in the political struggle. The second story gives a different version of a shameful episode of history: a serious conflict that occurred in 1978 between Argentina and Chile for the Austral Islands, told from the perspective of soldiers and witnesses to reveal a truth unknown from the confrontation. Julian Perez introduces these characters as passionate, principled fighters who want to find their truth and change the world.
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