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People say that reality is stranger than fiction... And more painful I would add. This movie presents the life of a woman who lives in a slum in the Dominican Republic.

Ana is a very humble single mother whose only goal in life is to help her son grow up and become a good man. She works selling flowers in a popular market. Her only son is a remarkable student, and achieves to reach 16 years of age without getting caught in the snares of drugs, crime or violence.

But living in the slums usually means to interact with criminals, and some of those criminals are either your friends or friends with someone in your family. That is exactly the reason why, as the result of a misunderstanding, Ana's son is shot and killed by the son of a wealthy and powerful family.

This is just the beginning of the difficulties that Ana will face. Throughout the movie we will discover that in her country Justice does not run at the same speed for everyone. And that the police needs a little bit more than just facts to quickly resolve a situation.

The death of her son, put together with the shortcomings of the judicial system, greatly disappoints Ana who, as a growing majority in her country, thinks that to truly obtain justice, you must take it with your own hands.

As a bonus we will also see what the police usually means when it says that a criminal died in a crossfire.

This movie has had a lot if hype in the Dominican movie community, title as serious effort to make more dramatic and socially conscious films, in an industry where the bulk of movies produced has been comedies targeted to a mass market. La lucha de Ana made it to limited Dominican movies theaters and had a conservative success. The problem is that the story presents nothing new, full of clichés and stereotyped characters; the acting is pretty bad with the exception of Cheddy Garcia (Ana) and maybe the guy who plays Ruben, the music and score is bad, the dialog seems forced, the character are flat and underdeveloped and you never get to care for anyone. This movie is way overrated. It wants to leave you with a message of social and class injustice but it fails to deliver that point successfully.