Once Upon a Time in the Caribbean

When his beloved wife disappears, a peasant with a violent past takes his machete and his daughter in his arms, and sets out on a path of revenge in Ray Figueroa’s stunningly choreographed Caribbean samurai Western that honors the legacy of Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone with a Puerto Rican twist.

A time of poverty and inequality, when honor had no social class. It could easily be feudal Japan, but it’s the Caribbean. Instead of swords, they use machetes. In 1930’s Puerto Rico, Americans were buying every piece of land available. When they can’t get what they want, they take it. Jr. Walker wants Pura for his wife, so he sends his men to kidnap her. What he didn’t know was that Pura already has a husband, Juan Encarnación, once the most feared foreman, and a daughter, Patria. Encarnación will take on all of Jr. Walker’s henchmen to get her back, including old rivals.