It Would Be Night in Caracas

4/28/2026

When society begins breaking down, the chaos unleashed often affects all aspects of everyday life, including everything from the availability of food and medicine to the collapse of basic law and order to the disappearance of common decency and civility. Under conditions like this, it truly feels like the world is falling apart, transforming into a quintessential hell on earth. So it was in Venezuela in 2017, when the government of President Nicolás Maduro began clashing with opposition groups in a series of violent protests across the country, especially in the streets of its capital and largest city, Caracas. The general public quickly got caught in the crossfire of this madness, the kind of fate that befalls 28-year-old writer-editor Adelaida (Natalia Reyes), for whom every day becomes