Salomon Caramona and Lyndsey Jimenez are a hit-man and his wife who have to flee Mexico to Chicago when Caramona doesn't finish a hit. Unknown to him, the man that hired Caramona for the original hit, tracks him down in Chicago and is willing to forgive the original hit if the former assassin will find a serial killer that tortured and murdered his daughter.
Acting
Jorge Reynoso commits to 'Professor/Assassin' with unhinged sincerity.
Production
Chicago standing in for itself, barely, on what looks like $47.
Director
Ricardo Islas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ricardo Islas was a Chicago-based filmmaker who built a mini-empire of Spanish-language genre films for the Latino home video market in the 2000s.
The film captures a specific moment of Mexican-American genre cinema—low-budget, direct-to-DVD, made by and for immigrants navigating crime narratives in their adopted cities.
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