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Movie · 2012

La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas

To dream of the american dream is easy, but it is difficult to cross Mexico.

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Borderland tragedy Refugee survival Sex trafficking Gang violence Institutional corruption Doomed romance

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Release
2012
Runtime
115 min
Director
Luis Mandoki

Synopsis

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.

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