When a photo is found in a pocket of an unclaimed body exhumed from a mass grave, Fidel, a member of the forensic team, takes on the task of solving the mystery. Who is this man, dead over 25 years? And who is the woman in the picture?
Director Hécto Gálvez plunges NN (which stands for Non Nomine, the identifier for bodies that cannot be recognized or classifed) into the pain and politics of Peru’s disappeared—victims of military campaigns against left-wing fighters in the 1980s and 90s—but does so with great humanism and compelling style.