About the film

When a family of six Costa Rican siblings separates through illegal immigration, uncertainty arises about where home really is. The four oldest brothers follow in the footsteps of other local men who have left home to work illegally in the U.S. They leave their mother and young siblings behind in the rustic mountain village that is becoming known as "the island of lonely women."

The young men coming of age in a foreign culture struggle with conflicted self-identities. Urgent matters call them back home. Have they become too "Americanized" to return? A cycle has begun in the family, a cycle of rootlessness.

This documentary reminds us that while people everywhere worry about the protection of their borders, each individual immigrant has a family, a story and a dream.