Veiled Halos

Popayán, 1923. A fourth child is born into the Rendón family as Holy Week processions move through streets scented with incense and rain. His mother cradles him with the certainty that God has chosen this one for something. His father counts, again, the futures he can afford to give.

What follows spans generations.

From the cane fields of the Valle del Cauca to the city of Cali and the wide distances of the American West, the Rendón brothers build their lives from what the century allows: fai...