“A teenage girl, Yaremi, from the state of Jalisco, implores her visiting father, Rodolfo, not to go back to the United States. She is challenging his very way of life, pleading for a unified family rather than one with a spectral father who sends money, is a voice on the telephone and appears from time to time. She dreads his next departure”.

“What will I give you to eat?” the troubled father asks his daughter, envisioning his family’s uncertain future tied to a dodgy cucumber harvest in the rocky soil.

Read more in this L.A. Times review of the new film “Los Que Se Quedan“, describing the plight of the families left behind, while the father or son (usually) spend most of the year finding work in el norte. This film describes perfectly a major reason for One Town At A Time and why it is such an important issue.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-etw-remain27-2009jun27,0,7873728.story

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