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With intimate access and striking imagery this film explores one family's experience as they are separated b deportation. Sam and Elida Mejia escaped a violent civil war in Guatemala and came to California. After raising their family for nearly 20 years in the Bay Area, immigration agents stormed the Mejia house in 2007. Sam and Elida were deported back to Guatemala, and left their two teenage children in the U.S. This short documentary explores the complexities of the Mejia's new reality -- parents living without their children, and children doing their best to succeed without their parents.

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