She had died under mysterious circumstances in 2001 in Mexico City, following her kidnapping by the federal police in 1999.
It won the Ariel Award in 2005 in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary ("Mejor Largometraje Documental") for Felipe Cazals.
The story of the film covers part of the life of the lawyer and social activist Digna Ochoa, from her first kidnapping in August 1988 to her death in October 2001.
The film presents more than sixty testimonies from criminologists, journalists (Blanche Petrich and Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa), human rights defenders (Emilio Álvarez Icaza), clergymen, police, social activists, the attorney general of Mexico City (Bernardo Bátiz), as well as Digna Ochoa's family and friends, while the actors who take part in the film dramatise the events of her life.
[2] The feature-length television report edited by Moisés Carrillo has a running time of 117 minutes.