Illuminate - Mariangela Melato

Sara Perez Romero, political activist, fights in the 1900's for Mexico's democracy. The life of this extraordinary Mexican woman in a historic-fiction film The politically active Sara Pérez Romero from Queretaro fights, together with her husband, President Francisco I Madero, for the restoration of democracy in Mexico. Sara, strong-willed since she was a child, lived with the workers on her father's farm, which made her reflect on the social differences in Mexico. She later studied in California, embracing liberal and democratic ideals that would accompany her throughout her life.