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A Mexican farmworker desperate for extra cash to raise his growing family jumps the border fence, which leads to systematic exploitation by employers while toiling under the constant threat of deportation. Only the kindness of a lonely waitress offers some much-needed saving grace in Robert M. Young's scrappily realistic depiction of undocumented migrant labor in which dignity is in short supply. With its similar humanist bent, this little-seen movie should appeal to audiences who enjoyed Gregory Nava's EI Norte.