5 Dec 2007
Director: Joshua Marston
USA, Colombia
2004
101 min
Maria is a bright and vivacious seventeen year-old. She supports her family by stripping thorns from roses in a flower plantation. She loses her job and is offered the prospect of travelling to the USA. However, to do so she must become a drug mule by smuggling cocaine pellets in her stomach. Her trip is far from uneventful as she is thrown into the brutal world of drug trafficking. Her existence becomes one of survival from which she aims to emerge ‘full of grace’ into a new life in New York. In Spanish and English with subtitles.