Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán returns to the subject that shaped his career: the president whose government ended on September 11, 1973, when tanks surrounded La Moneda palace and Augusto Pinochet's forces seized power. Guzmán combines archival footage of Allende's rallies and speeches with present-day interviews of people who worked alongside him, from cabinet ministers to bodyguards who were inside the palace on the day of the coup. The film traces Allende's rise as a socialist doctor turned senator turned president, elected on a platform of nationalizing copper mines and redistributing land, and follows the mounting economic pressure and political violence that preceded the military takeover. Guzmán, who was a young filmmaker in Santiago when the coup happened and was later detained, treats Allende less as a symbol than as a specific man, tracking his last radio broadcast and the accounts of those who last saw him alive inside the burning palace. The film is personal reckoning as much as history, made by someone who lived through the collapse it documents.