Plot

The true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-1990s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?

An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned factories. In the film Mexican police officer Blanca Bravo is sent to Cuidad Juarez to investigate and comes to learn realities of these women's lives, as well as the truth about a police force and local power structure embodied by entrepreneur Mickey Santos that has ceased to care.—Human Rights Watch Film Festival

1997.Blanca Bravo,new to Ciudad Juarez as the assistant commander of the police,decides to take action against a possible women serial killer.Without any solid evidence,she arrests the 'Sultan'.Meanwhile,Juanita arrives to Cd Juarez from Oxolatan,and begins working in an asembly plant,taking a leap from rural society to a cosmopolitan and postmodern world as an independent woman,Blanca gets more and more entangled in her quest for justice through legitimate means,Juana becomes a tragic victim of her freedom,exercised in a society where macho violence enjoys a free zone.