On February 8th, 2000, Albert Lima, a Florida attorney, flies to the small island of Roatan, Honduras to settle a personal business dispute with a local family, but when he never called home, his family knew something had gone terribly wrong.

My Father's People is a documentary feature that intimately explores the truth behind the abduction that took place that day, the discovery of Albert Lima's body in the deep Honduran brush, the shortcomings of the US Embassy to aid in such cases, and a son's struggle to find the meaning of justice and closure when every legal attempt fails.

Dealing with the loss of a loved one is quite possibly the one universal experience that every human on Earth will one day encounter. Death can affect, if not haunt those left behind forever, and when it is further compacted by injustice- it can cause the bereaved to internally die with them. A soldier dies in Iraq, a woman is killed by a drunk driver, an Israeli child is victim to a car bomb. How do their loved one's move from that point and continue to live their lives without being dead inside?

The film additionally turns a raised eyebrow at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras and the US State Department in D.C. with respect to each agencies' core mission statement regarding the protection of U.S. citizens overseas. Juxtaposing the mission on paper with the sheer reality that only victims' families thus far have truly experienced, raises a far deeper question: How does a family who has lost a loved one overseas attain justice when the very government agencies who collect American tax dollars for such purpose claim an inability to get involved with such cases?