La Americana

When her nine-year-old daughter is badly injured in a bus accident, Carmen, a young single mother from Bolivia, is unable to pay for the specialized care her daughter desperately needs.
After 6 long years away, working illegally in the US to raise what she believes will be enough money to support her daughter for life, Carmen finally returns home and discovers the money she has raised is nowhere near enough.
Now Carmen faces a heartbreaking choice – should she stay with her ailing daughter, or make the perilous journey back to the US for a second time?
This timely film is a heartbreaking portrait of the human side of the current immigration crisis in America.


