In southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border, a young Indigenous girl discovers a Latina migrant her age who has been separated from her father while traveling through the Tohono O’odham Nation into the United States.
Cinematography
Desert light that feels like a character.
Acting
Two young leads, zero false notes.
Direction
Stein trusts silence completely.
Director
Jefferson Stein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in the Tohono O'odham Nation with community permission and non-professional local actors.
The Tohono O'odham Nation predates the US-Mexico border by millennia — the film quietly centers Indigenous sovereignty over colonial cartography.
US
