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Shot on the very meanest streets of the Dominican Republic, THE BUTCHER'S SON follows an inexorable arc from innocence to damnation, based on events from the writer's own life in Santiago. The sensitive Luisito realises his fate as a hardened killer when he witnesses the butchering of his father at the hands of a deported criminal. The angry young man rebrands himself as 'La Soga', after the noose his father used to lead pigs to slaughter. He is soon recruited by the Dominican secret police, who exploit Luisito's hunger for revenge. Following in the footsteps of CITY OF GOD, an acknowledged inspiration, this brutal and spectacular revenger's tragedy transcends crime drama with its savage portrayal of Dominican gangland.