This film tells the story of young migrants trying to fit in.
In Mexico City David has arrived from his village to be a construction worker after his father's death and is introduced into the punk scene. However his cousin wants him to be a gang member.
Alex has been deported from the USA to his poverty stricken and gang infested fishing village in Columbia. He now cuts people up for local gangs and dumps their bodies in the mangrove swamp. His younger brother knows what he has been up to and might even follow his path.
Filipina teenager Maria has to come to live with her grandmother in Canada after the death of her mother. She fights back at school after being bullied and is expelled. She continues to be rebellious, mixing with other Filipina teenagers.
There is no connection between the three stories and it has a multi language dialogue but the film does slowly draw you in. Director Juan Andrés Arango adds some visual flair here and there.
It is a film that explores alienation and the need to survive or feel included, especially as two of them are in mourning. Despite the dire circumstances the three people find themselves in, I found it comical to see David getting a blue mohican punk hairstyle, 40 years after it first became fashionable in Britain.
