Diego's crossing

Diego is seventeen and lives in a border town in Mexico, where cartel violence has filled the local papers with death tolls. He wants a life that reaches beyond the place he was born. When his older brother Ernesto returns in a heavily customized pickup, Diego knows exactly what Ernesto does for a living, even though no one around them will say it aloud.

Diego keeps his distance from Ernesto until he finds him badly beaten and unable to complete a shipment for a violent gang. Breaking a promise he made to himself, Diego takes the drugs across the border and gets them delivered.

Having made the crossing, Diego faces another decision. He can stay tied to the cartel for its large but dangerous paydays, or he can walk away and return to a town with very few prospects.