Roses in December (1982)

The film begins with the exhumation of four American women tortured raped and murdered by the rightwing government of El Salvador on December 2 1980 The women Dorothy Kazel an Ursuline Ita Ford and Maura Clarke Maryknoll mission sisters and Jean Donovan a young laywoman from Cleveland were providing food shelter medical care and burial to the poor They were targeted for assassination by a death squad within the USsupported Salvadoran military as part of a policy of suppressing the poor and liberation theology The awardwinning documentary focuses primarily on the life of Jean Donovan through archival news footage interviews home movies and diary readings