Amid US-backed industrial strikes that threaten to grind Allende’s Chile to a halt, workers and peasants take counteraction, defying imperialism and supporting the socialist government. Uniting to exercise “popular power,” these citizens organize local groups and keep the nation’s cogs turning.

Socialist to the end, Patricio Guzmán chooses not to conclude his monumental work with Augusto Pinochet toppling Salvador Allende, but returns it instead to the people. Without false hope, rousing calls for greater collective action resonate from the shadows of Chile’s recent, tumultuous past.