The Golden Dream

About the film

Juan, Sara and Samuel, three fifteen-year-old teenagers from the slums of Guatemala, flee towards the US in looking for a better life. Along the way, they pick up a fourth member, Chauk, a Tzotzil boy from Chiapas who does not speak Spanish and has no official documents. Travelling together in cargo trains and walking along the railroad tracks, they soon have to run into a harsh reality. The Spanish-born Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez condenses in The Golden Dream (La Jaula de Oro, 2013), his piercing and poetic road movie, hundreds of such real-life stories, showing, through a grim reality, the betrayals and violence that immigrants have to face during their dangerous journey to cross the Mexican border.