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Maria Alvarez, a bright, spirited 17 year-old, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house i rural Colombia. Desperate to leave her job stripping thorns at a rose plantation, Maria accepts a lucrative offer to transport packets of heroin-which she must swallow- to the U.S. The ruthless world of international drug traffiking proves to more than Maria bargained for as she becomes ultimately entangled with both drug cartels and immigration officials.

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