FOR disaffected Colombian 17-year-old Maria Alvarez (Catalino Sandino Moreno), the lure of the drugs trade is simply too great.
Trapped in a dead-end, low-paid job preparing long-stemmed roses for shipping abroad, Maria is desperate to escape her unsympathetic boss, her uncaring boyfriend (Wilson Guerrero) and her cramped home, which she shares with her mother, grandmother and sister, all of whom rely on her wages.
When a handsome stranger called Franklin (John Alex Toro) offers Maria a small fortune to work as a drugs mule, she jumps at the chance, seeing the flight from Bogota to New York as the opportunity to start anew. Having swallowed the 62, 10-gram pellets containing heroin, the nightmare begins for Maria as she struggles to control her nerves and her digestive system.
Two fellow mules - best friend Blanca (Yenny Paola Vega) and old timer Lucy (Giulied Lopez) - also make the trip. Within hours of reaching America, one of the girls is dead from a ruptured pellet.
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