For My Daughter

[Available Feb. 1 via DVD and various digital platforms.] After a stressed-out, hardworking Mexican field laborer (Christopher Bustos) working on a ranch in Jalisco, Mexico, leaves his parents (Joe Bravo and Camila De Santiago) and in-laws (Fernando Alcaraz and Sonia Sanchez) and crosses the border into the United States with his devoted wife (Daniela Vidaurre) and young daughter (Luciana Elisa Quinonez) in Fernando Rodriguez's engaging, realistic, bittersweet, nonlinear, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, well-acted, 59-minute film, the couple struggles to fulfill their American dream while on an emotional rollercoaster dealing with racism and continued hardships, and when a sudden tragedy occurs, they must decide how to proceed with their lives.
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