Down Came a Blackbird (1995): Cast & Plot

Tomás Ramírez is a professor who joins a clinic run by Anna Lenke, a Holocaust survivor, psychologist and the clinic’s proprietor, whose patients are also recovering Holocaust and torture victims. Among them is Helen McNulty, a journalist tortured by the death squads of an unidentified Central American country controlled by a dictatorship. In time she grows close to Ramírez, but suspicions are aroused when three men attempt to detain him while he and Helen are on a date. McNulty photographs one of the assailants and sends the picture to a colleague for possible identification. Some time later, during one of the Scotch-fueled late-night conversations between McNulty and Ramírez, he talks about a childhood friend who was an officer in the Army of his home country.