Mateo, 17, strives to gather enough money to pay for the coyote who will smuggle him across the U.S.-Mexico border after the yearly fiesta in his small Zapotec village in Oaxaca, Southern Mexico. His dream is to work hard in Los Angeles and support his mom and kid brother back home. But the way to get there is far more difficult than he envisioned.
Los Ángeles
Damian John Harper
IndieLisboa 2014 • International Competition
Germany, Mexico, Fiction, 2014, 97′