Deported, alone, and building a bike with a cranky old racer—home isn't where your passport says.
Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and depressed in the country where he is supposed to belong. While rebuilding an old motorcycle with Don Memo, a retired motorcycle racer, with whom he is forced to work, he will discover where his real home is.
Acting
Rojas's wordless grief could shatter stone.
Direction
Zuñiga turns 23 minutes into a lifetime of ache.
Editing
Lean cuts that trust silence over exposition.
Director
Juan Manuel Zuñiga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Tijuana with actual deported extras, many experiencing the story in real-time.
The motorcycle is a real 1980 Honda CG125—same model director's father rode before being deported in 1986.
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