Our Lady of the Assassins (2001)

Synopsis: The writer Fernando Vallejo returns to Medellin, the city of his childhood, after an absence of over thirty years. Fernando meets Alexis, 16 years old, in a boys' brothel. Alexis comes from the slums. He has been drawn into a world of killing. Love begins to blossom between Fernando and... The writer Fernando Vallejo returns to Medellin, the city of his childhood, after an absence of over thirty years. Fernando meets Alexis, 16 years old, in a boys' brothel. Alexis comes from the slums. He has been drawn into a world of killing.

Love begins to blossom between Fernando and Alexis. But their love has no future… it is condemned before the fact by the harsh reality around them.

Anyone who crosses his path can be a possible victim. Alexis needs no reason to kill: like an Angel of Death, he openly fires on anybody who rubs him the wrong way…

Bound by their passion for each other, they wander from church to church, murder to murder, each day their love growing stronger.

Then one day, a passing motorcyclist shoots Alexis down.

He roams the streets where, in spite of the squalor and violence, everything reminds him his romance with Alexis. One day, he meets a young boy, Wilmar, who at first glance looks like Alexis.

A new love story begins for Fernando, as if in this city reality has been turned upside down, and the dead seem to come alive again. -- © 2001 Paramount Classics [More]