A defecting East German secret police agent goes to Mexico and is immediately met at the airport by Mexican secret police who recruit him to spy on leftist university students or face deportation. An intriguing mixture of politics and romance creates a fairly interesting picture that gets preachy at times, but has a sledgehammer ending that more than makes up for it. In fact the premise is rather interesting as the protagonist is from a communist country and he's forced to spy on leftists by an authoritarian rightist government, and in the midst of it all he falls for one of the students. Escaping the repression of one government only to fall into that of another, he is like a puppet being jerked around from all sides, forced to spy on people whose views he presumably shares, walking a tightrope between the left and the right.
Review of Francisca
