In March 1964, the military coup in Brazil brought filming to a halt on the feature film Man Marked for Death being shot in the northeastern part of the country, which used farmworkers as actors to tell the story of the martyred farm labor leader João Pedro Teixeira, who had been assassinated in 1962. Now, twenty years later, director Eduardo Coutinho has completed his film in a most remarkable way, tracking down his original subjects--including Teixeira's widow, who emerges from hiding for the film, and many of his compatriots--and following the paths they were forced to take since the coup. Twenty Years Later moves back and forth between past and present, fact and fiction, and demonstrates the cinema's complicity with life.