Sins of My Father

Some happily live in their father’s shadow, but when Dad is cocaine-baron Pablo Escobar, that shadow is dark, foreboding and seemingly endless. A fugitive for the last years of his father’s life, and exiled in Argentina since his death, Escobar’s son changed his name in an attempt to lead a ‘normal life’. But guiltless normality is hard to achieve with such an inheritance. Sebastián Marroquín opens the family’s film and photo archives and recounts his father’s life, as he remembers it. He neither shies away from his father’s brutality, nor justifies it. He takes brave steps at amends, reaching out to the sons of assassinated politicians, and attempts to halt the 20 year cycle of violence Escobar unleashed on Columbia. This timid and unlikely hero is central to a richly humane story of personal courage, emotional encounters, contemplative introspection and, ultimately, redemption.