Nicknamed ‘Mandarria’ (‘Sledgehammer’), Andrés Rodríguez Rodríguez once fought alongside his fellow Cubans in support of liberation armies in Angola and Nicaragua. Mandarria is now in his sixties, his days in the special forces long behind him – but just as he persists in maintaining his punishing training regimen, alone in rural Cuba, so he continues to chase the ghosts of his past on the frontline.