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The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas

20121h 55mDrama
directed by Luis Mandoki

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

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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.

Cast

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