Guatemala
Natividad is a 14-year-old Maya girl. Her isolated mountain village retains many traditions which strengthen its sense of identity. But her world is changing. A recently constructed road brings new influences to the community; and farm land is growing scarce. Soon she will make important choices about the direction her life will take.
El Salvador
Jose is 15. A child of refugee parents, he was born in Nicaragua during the civil war of the 1980s. After years of uncertainty, his family has returned to El Salvador to sink roots in Nueva Esperanza, a jungle cooperative village of 200 refugee families. He shows us his family, school and village.
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