Sons of the Desert / Hijos del desierto

The story begins in the far north of Chile , around 1907. At that time, a terrible event occurred, known throughout history as the Santa María School Massacre in Iquique . As a result of this cruel mass murder, in which innocent men , women , and children died unjustly , including the parents of two young brothers from Iquique , Pedro and Manuel Ramírez, [ 4 ] The children were forcibly separated. On one hand, Manuel was kidnapped by Gregorio Sanfuentes ( Francisco Melo ), a represented who Chilean Navy officer the institution among the many officers of the various military regiments in charge of the repression , with the surprising intention of adopting him, at the insistence of Gregorio's wife, Antonia Williams ( Paola Volpato ), a long-suffering woman who only wished to become a mother but could not conceive biologically; while Pedro ran away from a children's home and embarked on an adventure in search of his brother, growing up on the streets of the city of Valparaíso . [ 5