ANA

Ana wants nothing more than to live her peaceful life in the Irish countryside, raise her two young boys, and work on her writing career. But when her friends Pedro and Oscar ask for her help on a project, she can’t refuse them, and joins them on a trip to Guatemala, thinking that the demons of her past have surely gone away by now. She’s wrong. They haven’t gone away, and she is tagged as soon as she lands in her old home town of Flores. She is taken hostage along with her two friends. As soon as they land in their cell, the two men learn that Ana is not who they thought she was. She is a fighter, a guerrilla warrior who once single handedly took down the province’s biggest narco cartel. And the cartel is out for vengeance, out to do what any cartel does with a snitch. But Pedro and Oscar are a distraction, a handy way to make some cash, so the boss, Jorge, decides to negotiate for their release first, before killing Ana. He knows it will hurt her even more to see them walk away in freedom, while she can never have hers back. The negotiations fail. The narcos panic. Ana uses her skill, knowledge, and survival instinct to get herself, Pedro, and Oscar to freedom. But the fight is not over. In the dense Guatemalan jungle, the fight is never over. And while Pedro and Oscar are brought to freedom with the help of the DEA and the army, Ana must continue her fight for months on end. She takes down the entire cartel - again - because they will not allow her to leave the country to get back to her children in Ireland. Pedro returns, only to find that the DEA, who profited most from Ana’s underground war, will stop at nothing to get the last of the narcos. Even if it means holding an innocent mother of two hostage in the jungle and making her kill. She never does regain her freedom, she dies fighting for a war she never had a stake in, and leaves behind two orphans who look to Pedro to tell them stories of their hero mom who died fighting bad guys in the jungle.