Benedictus
Mar 17, 2018 | IMDB 0
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Benedicto, is a retired police officer who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life, helping young drug addicts and homeless people in the rural town of Corozal, Puerto Rico. His story takes place day by day in a little humble house in the death road of the municipal cemetery of Corozal, a rural municipality of Puerto Rico with a high population of young homeless people, alcoholism and drug addicts. The door of Benedictus little house on the death road to the cemetery is the deviation between life and death for these young people in need.
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