"Behind every flower is a death": in a few words, a young Colombian greenhouse worker will make you think twice the next time you buy carnations. Amor, mujeres y flores is a chilling exposé of the human and ecological cost of Colombia's third largest export industry, wherein the use of pesticides banned elsewhere jeopardizes the health, and finally the lives, of over 60,000 women workers (and many men as well). Leukemia, epilepsy, blindness, miscarriages, backbreaking conditions and unbending poverty: there are no "hothouse flowers" among these abused workers who service the success of their Harvard-bred patron. Dispensing with the myth that Third World people need a "voice over" to speak for them, this film's extraordinary force, and its poetry, are in the voices of the workers themselves, combined with Jorge Silva's lyrical photography. Silva died in 1987, at the age of 46, while working on Amor, mujeres y flores with his companion Marta Rodriguez, who completed the film.