Synopsis
Maria, 17, lives in a small town north of Bogotá with her mother, her grandmother, her sister and her sister’s young son. Maria works on a rose plantation with her friend, Blanca. Work is tiring and the only variety in Maria’s life are the fiestas she attends with her boyfriend, Juan. Maria has a impulsive nature. One day, she gets into a terrible row with her boss and loses her job. When she finds out to be pregnant, she decides to take her chances in the city. There she runs into an old acquaintance, Franklin, a young man who proposes her to work as a courier: to swallow tiny packets of heroin and smuggle them into the USA. If she agrees, there’s 5,000 US dollars for her. She agrees. Lucy has already completed two smuggling trips; she shows Maria how to prepare her body for the job. Shortly after this, Blanca finds herself in the clutches of a group of drug dealers. Two days later, the two friends find themselves on an airplane bound for the USA. Maria has 62 packets of heroin in her stomach…