[3] Oteyza, a social historian, uses archive footage and interviews with other experts to create views of the situation, examining populism through the lens of Venezuela.

It describes the events from Chávez's failed coup to his rise and then the fall of the regime as discontent at economic failure and growing authoritarianism takes the people.

[4] Some of those featured in the documentary include Krauze, Fernando Mires, Loris Zanatta,[4] Alberto Barrera Tyszka, and Ana Rosa Torres.

The newspaper reviewed the film as trying to be enlightening, but leaving out some things that El País argues are crucial to the narrative; it suggests that a discussion of the political opposition would have been more useful than "an emphatic highlighting" of the economic crisis through images of empty supermarkets and people searching through trash.

Also, contrary to the El País review, Rosales writes that the film "tries to set aside the possible melodrama [...] to build a serious account", but does acknowledge a lack of "explicit references in defense of opposing positions to the government".