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Romero, a 23-year-old Indigenous man who used to drive a three-wheeled mototaxi (TucTuc) in his rural town, flees local gang extortion and migrates to Guatemala City. He finds a job as a security guard at a commercial center, where he falls in love with a trans woman who runs a local business. Together, they build an emotional sanctuary, but their bond is quickly threatened by the deep-seated prejudice and hostility of his coworkers.
Molly (35), a trans woman, takes care of her father Manuel in the house she abandoned in her adolescence. When a woman visits him unexpectedly, they are both forced to face their fears and expectations.
Tomas' 3-year-old daughter was kidnapped by soldiers during the war in Guatemala, and 20 years later, he learns that she is living only 150 miles away.
In 1979 José Efraín Ríos Montt became a reborn Christian. He was offering a sermon when a group of soldiers burst into his Christian school, and asked him to lead a military coup in 1982. Francisco Chavez Raymundo and his sister were small children when Rios' political actions annihilated their community. In March, 2013 the lives of Francisco Chavez and Rios Montt converge in the same space. Rios is called upon to testify before Guatemalan justice and is confronted by a group of Mayan Ixiles, orphans and widows of the war, Francisco is one of them.
Siblings Dylan and Andrea set off with their new friends on a marvelous journey of discovery in search of long lost pirate loot.
