Boulevard of Heroes

Petronio Rincón, the son of an assassinated politician and the follower of a revolutionary priest, organizes the residents of a poor neighborhood to his cause and lives in the jungle. But when his troops overthrow him and the government exiles him, Petronio finds himself in the urban wilderness of Paris, where he is forcibly interned in a hospital. One evening he chances upon a stone staircase that spirals him into the bowels of the city, beginning a Dantesque experience plagued with horrors.