El Violin plot
Soldiers beat up a group of farmers to strengthen the central authority. But neither beatings nor torture do much. Farmers continue to resist government oppression. In the long run it becomes a cat-and-mouse game between the established power and the peasants. Between the two parties walks an eighty-year-old man who tries to earn a living with his son and grandson playing the violin. The old man, Don Plutarco, is an inconspicuous part of the landscape, so the soldiers leave him alone. Maybe they shouldn't have done that.