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On the surface this is the story of Cinquera, a village literally wiped off the official map during E Salvador's 12-year civil war. Yet, on a deeper level it is a story about the ability to rise, to rebuild and reinvent oneself after a tragedy. Holding the past and present in focus together, The Tiniest Place takes us to the tiny village nestled in the mountains amidst the humid Salvadoran jungle, while villagers, survivors of the war's massacres, recount their journey home at war's end. When they first returned their village no longer existed. Nevertheless they decided to stay, and over the years as they worked the land, built new homes and started new families; the people of Cinquera learned to live with the sorrow of the past.

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