Smuack

In an industrial town in Mexico near the US border, hundreds of women have been sexually abused and murdered. As the body count continues to rise, a web of corruption unfolds that reaches the highest levels of Mexican society.

Two children, under a death threat run away from Juarez, join a journalist, who has just lost his son in a car accident, to become a new family. During a long journey in a short time, everything will spin around death, the fragile universe of love and life’s traps.

Jesús was sexually abused by a priest when he was 11 years old. As an adult, he decided not only to denounce his aggressor, but also to find him and confront him. This is a story that reveals the impunity of the Catholic Church for acts of pederasty committed by some of its members, while Jesús Romero offers the testimony of his life.

Mezquite is a large tree with many virtues and is in danger due to the neglect that has been had with its species in recent years.