although it flirt with agitprop and it stereotype and the violin be ultimately a small and move and human drama center on the perseverance and against a ruthless military government and of a poor and frail and self efface grandfather and his family . the late ángel tavira be excellent a the grandfather the human face of an underground resistance whose weapon of choice be a violin . the long shot and in black and white and of tavira on his borrow mule remind me of the scene in the grape of wrath where tom joad lead his family of dust bowl émigrés across the ridge of a california hill or the panoramic shot of sicilian hillside in godfather ii . it man in nature and man against a heavily arm nature and and tragically nature win . good independent film .