On April 23, 1993, in the rural farm community of San Luis, Arizona, civil rights and farm labor leader Cesar Chavez is settling in after a long day of testifying in a weekslong civil trial about the worker abuses of a large regional agribusiness. Chavez is spending the night at the home of a retired farmworker. After dinner, he retires to his bedroom to tape record the latest installment of his memoirs. Chavez will die in his sleep that night.