In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.
Acting
Greisy Mena's debut—fragile defiance in every frame.
Cinematography
The Suchiate River as purgatory, not border.
Direction
Mandoki's return to Mexican cinema after Hollywood exile.
Director
Luis Mandoki
Greisy Mena
Sabina Rivas
Joaquín Cosío
Burrona
Fernando Moreno
Jovany
Angelina Peláez
Doña Lita
Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Juan
Beto Benitez
Tata Añorve
Nick Chinlund
Patrick
Mario Zaragoza
Sarabia
Argél Galindo
Jefe Mara-Poisson
Dagoberto Gama
General Valderrama
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
Madre de Sabina Rivas
Julián Pastor
Invitado a la fiesta de Cossío
Luis Yee
Pedro
Miguel Flores
Don Nico
Tito Vasconcelos
Presentador Tijuanita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in Tapachula and Ciudad Hidalgo, using actual migrants as extras—some were detained during production.
Tenoch Huerta (Juan) would explode internationally ten years later in 'Black Panther 2'—here he's already magnetic as low-level cartel muscle.
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