- What is meant to be a weekend party across the border soon becomes a heartbreaking journey that tests the boundaries of companionship, romantic love and personal ethics.
- A true talent, up-and-comer Ariel Vromen brings to the screen a visually alluring and emotionally charged first feature. With a cast of gifted young actors, Vromen delves into the darker side of the party to reveal that life can change indefinitely when decisions are made with love and friendship on the line. Andrew, Melissa and Jonny are friends in the prime of their lives. But when the real life weight of family misfortune becomes too much for Andrew to bear, he makes a desperately naive decision. What is meant to be a weekend party across the border soon becomes a heartbreaking journey that tests the boundaries of companionship, romantic love and personal ethics. Beautifully composed shots and a stellar soundtrack complete this package, lending Vromen's dark yet moving coming-of-age story a hip edge and resonating style.—Anonymous
- Andrew and Melissa are a young couple coping with college and, in Andrew's case, finances. Jonny is a friend to botyh and also the local drug dealer. In a desperate attempt to get enough money to get through another semester Andrew steals money from his job as a valet and arranges with Jonny to travel to Mexico and invest it in drugs to bring back across the border. Melissa, thinking the trip is for the purpose of attending a desert party, talks them into letting her come. The trip to Mexico, in Melissa's classic convertible, with the wind in their hair and the world at their feet, iwill be the last time the three are truly happy. Upon meeting with Jonny's supplier, Pepe,played by Alan Tudyk , Andrew suddenly changes the plan and reveals that he wants to make big time money. The only way to do this is with a new drug similar to steroids. And the only way to get this amount of drugs across the border is to eat them. Jonny, at first feeling betrayed by his friend, sympathizes with him , knowing that only desperation would have led him to this place, and shows his true loyalty by helping Andrew swallow the pills. Things are okay until they are in line to cross the Mexican/US border, where it becomes obvious that something is terribly wrong with Jonny. The truth comes out about the drugs but not beforre Jonny pays the ultimate price for friendship and loyalty. Andrew and Melissa, in shock over Jonny's death and the seriousness of the situation, try to return the drugs and get out of Mexico. Then the scenario goes truly wrong and all that Andrew can do is to try to get Melissa safely home and out of the mess that he has caused.
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