Neither sensationalist nor evasive, this riveting profile of the survivors of Flight 571 relate the psychological, physical and spiritual angst they experienced when making the decision to survive. On the Friday of October 13, 1972, 45 members and supporters of the Uruguayan rugby team, the Old Christians, boarded the plane for Chile. Privileged, educated and buoyed with the high spirits of youth, the passengers had everything to live for – until their plane crashed onto a remote and inescapably bleak 4 000m-high glacier in the Andes. Undetected from the air, the search is called off after ten days. But, ten weeks later, two exhausted, starving men stumble off the mountain, lucky to find a Chilean shepherd in the wilderness, and tell a story that will shock the world. 35 years later, the humanity behind the salacious headlines is recalled by Arijón. The trip, crash and bid to survive by eating the flesh of friends and families is retold through deeply emotional accounts, recovered footage and photographs, and moving, well-crafted reconstructions. Parallel to the main story is a return trip for the survivors and their families to the crash site, where boys went through their own personal hell to become men.