American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Jennifer Lopez | Lauren Adrian |
Martin Sheen | George Morgan |
Antonio Banderas | Alfonso Diaz |
Maya Zapata | Eva Jimenez |
Sônia Braga | Teresa Casillas |
Kate del Castillo | Elena Diaz |
John Norman | Senator Rawlings |
Randall Batinkoff | Frank Kozerski |
Juan Diego Botto | Marco Antonio Salamanca |
Irineo Alvarez | Domingo Esparza |
Julio Cedillo | Julio |
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez | Lourdes Jimenez |