When Napoleon III's French army invades Mexico in 1862, the protagonists are forced to protect and nourish themselves, excavate their true identity, and marry the paradoxical truths of past and present, masculine and feminine, lightness and darkness. Indigena is a timeless story of adversity and triumph, war and peace. Grounded in factual detail and effervescent with metaphor, this story of Cinco de Mayo fuses real-life historical figures with palpable fictional characters to recount the Mexican people's rise from the ashes of oppression.
