Overwiew :The film is about a bright, spirited 17-year old, Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno) lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia. An offer of a lucrative job involving travel changes her life, she's transported into the risky and ruthless world of international drug trafficking, becoming a drug "mule". She smuggle half a kilo of heroin into the United States by swallowing capsules filled with the drug.
