The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

Original title: La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas

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

• 2012
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• 1h 55m
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• 16

• Drama

★ 7.2 TMDB Rating · 129 votes

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.

Director

Luis Mandoki

Release date

Nov 9, 2012

Original language

Spanish

Origin

Mexico