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  • 12 years ago
104 minutes | (2009) | Thriller, Drama

When a young woman searches for the truth about her dead mother, she finds jeopardy, deception, and the Red Queen.

Gabriela, Gabby Salinas,has spent her entire life yearning for a connection with her mother, who died during childbirth at the remote St. Amelias Mission on the muddy banks of the Rio Grande. Gabby has been pressing her father, JOSE SALINAS, for information about her family, but the man is resistant, saying only that her mother was a poor immigrant from Nicaragua and that hes a foster kid from Santa Fe. As Gabby uses the internet to search for information on her maternal heritage, she sets in motion a series of events that upends her world. She learns her father is not from Santa Fe and her late mother was never from Nicaragua. In fact, her mother may not be dead at all, but alive, in hiding, and in mortal danger. Despite many trials and obstacles, and determined and dangerous opponents, Gabby Salinas finally gains the connection with her mother that she has always desired.

Director: David Carren

Writers: David Carren, Jack R. Stanley

Stars: Valente Rodriguez, Estephania LeBaron and Linda Bustamante
Transcript
00:30In the spring of 1988, my mother and my father crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas.
00:37With them, they brought their hopes, their fears, and a mystery.
00:44A mystery it would take me 20 years to solve.
01:00In the spring of 1988, my mother and my father crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas.
01:07With them, they brought their hopes, their fears, and a mystery.
01:12We're here, we're here. The danger is over.
01:20My baby, she's going to be born in America.
01:24He's going to be an American.
01:27It's a girl. She's panting like a little girl.
01:34Who are you? What do you want?
01:36Holy Mary Pure.
01:38Sister, we need a doctor.
01:41The bastard is dead.
01:43No, we have to take her to the hospital.
01:48Let's go, let's go.
01:58The story of a girl who was born in America.
02:04In the spring of 1989, my mother and my father crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas.
02:09With them, they brought their hopes, their fears, and a mystery.
02:12A mystery it would take me 20 years to solve.
02:17My baby, she's going to be born in America.
02:21Here, here.
02:24Here, here.

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