The liberal government of President Cárdenas gave de Fuentes a new studio, a battalion of soldiers, and a train for what would become Mexico's first mega-production. Examining the Revolution in all its chaos and contradictions, Vámonos tells the story of six rancheros who, in 1914, join Pancho Villa's loyal troops and one by one are led to their deaths. The desertion of a single disillusioned survivor contributes to a portrait of the charismatic Villa as a heartless leader in the face of war's horrors and personal loss. Not to be overlooked, though, is the train-a major protagonist of the film as it was of the Revolution. But if this moving ton of meaning is a cinematographer's dream (look for the night battle lit by the soldiers themselves), Gabriel Figueroa's camerawork also lends intimacy to the film's Grand Illusion–like plea for peace on the personal level.