“To dream of the american dream is easy, but it is difficult to cross Mexico.”
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.
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
The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas is a drama film released in 2012 exploring themes of refugee camp, drug trafficking, singer, mexican, mexican army, sex slavery. Directed by Luis Mandoki, it stars Greisy Mena, Joaquín Cosío, Fernando Moreno. 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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