A Chocolate and a Press Operation

In July 1982 a month after the capitulation of Argentine troops in the Falklands war with Great Britain GENTE magazine published on the cover a photo of a boy who had sent a letter and a chocolate to an anonymous soldier His letter and chocolate would never reach the recipient the chocolate being later sold at a kiosk in the Argentinian town of Comodoro Rivadavia 38 years later Gustavo Vidal the chocolate boy embarks on a journey to reconstruct the story that moved in its time Argentines deceived by the press before during and after the armed conflict with the United Kingdom