Video Americain

Synopsis

Upon her arrival in Juarez, Mexico, police captain Blanca Bravo (Ana de la Reguera) is confronted with a series of long–running and increasingly gruesome murders. The victims: all young women who work in or near surrounding factories. They are first raped then killed and left to desiccate in the burning desert. Within the town, nervous folks chatter about a possible serial killer. As Blanca pursues her investigation, she discovers a disjointed society in which apathy and fatalism have begun to spread, and the truth about the police force and local power structure embodied by entrepreneur Mickey Santos (Jimmy Smits). Based on real life events, Carlos Carrera's Backyard is an uncompromising look into the pitfalls of a resigned society trying to survive without a moral compass.