A poet in Mexico must dodge multiple competing drug dealers who want him to join their side, all the while a human trafficking scheme runs rampant in their town.

A man on a work trip in Central America attempts to help two young North American travelers as they navigate the dangerous new country.

In 1980s Peru, a dyslexic drug trafficker and grade school dropout and a wealthy, famous playwright labeled a terrorist for his play about killing the president form an unlikely relationship as cellmates in the notorious Collectors Prison of San Jacinto. The playwright convinces the men in their block to stage a performance of the play that landed him in jail, bringing a sense of comradery and unity; however, months after his release, he learns that the entire block, including his lover, was killed in the military suppression of a prison revolt.

A gang holds up a Mexican bar after an American man seeks their help in the search of his missing friend and wife, but the situation quickly turns violent.

As an American man returns to his ancestral home in New Hampshire, he imagines how he might have spent the last three years if he had traveled the world and become a Latin American revolutionary.

How far will people go for a hit of prehistoric ecstasy?

Three boys navigate their youth in Chicago, but are forced to grow up quickly when they start cooking drugs for money.

As their father's dissident newspaper draws increasing political fire from the ruling junta, a Latin American girl and her brother endure the consequences of his stand against tyranny.

While fighting the Sandinistas in El Salvador, a young American soldier uses hallucinogenic drugs to cope with his fear, making it difficult to determine what's real and what's not.

In contemporary Haiti, a 17-year-old girl with aspirations to attend university in the U.S. is entangled in a multi-national kidnapping plot that changes her family forever.