00:00 Every year, hundreds of thousands of South Americans, driven by poverty, try to cross the border into the United States.

7:05 The train, a constant danger
15:00 First stop at Tierra Blanca
21:23 Everything for a job in the United States
32:02 The emotional separation of the group of migrants
34:45 They continue their trip by bus
36:56 Last stopover before the border in Matamoros
45:05 They cross the Rio Grande river
50:22 What happened to them?

The trip begins in the Guatemalan village of Tecum Uman, separated from Mexico by the Suchiate River. Some 350,000 illegal immigrants attempt to cross the river each year. A real ordeal begins for them, at the end of which the luckiest will perhaps succeed in entering the United States. The price can reach $10,000. Fear is there, everywhere, omnipresent: fear of the authorities, of the corrupt police, of the gangs who control access to the trains. Rape, assault and forcible confinement are commonplace.