You can't trust anybody. The government is corrupt and spineless, the left-wing guerrillas are power-hungry and the right-wing paramilitaries are murderous. The people have had enough. That's why we rap - El Almirante, Colombian Rapper

This is a radical and thought-provoking exploration of how young Colombians feel about the crisis affecting their country. The film follows a summer in the lives of some of Colombia's finest rappers, DJs and break-dancers.

Colombia's rappers are the children of peasants, forced into the cities by the civil war that has been devastating rural communities since the 1950s. Suddenly urbanised, often jobless, surrounded by drug traffickers and corrupt policemen, this is an angry generation. Rap gives voice to this anger, and the hip-hop movement offers a barrio of unity and self-respect, in cities blighted by violence and hopelessness.

Resistencia culminates with the annual Rap al Parque hip-hop festival, the largest of its kind in South America. Over forty rap groups from all over the country, DJs, MCs, graffiti artists and break-dancers call for unity and an end to the violence. In the background, a war that ignores the voice of Colombian youth rages undiminished.