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Enrique is at Nuevo Laredo ,where he meets new people can help him. Few days he starts to gets depressed, when he doesn’t see his mother for months. Enrique and his friends help each others to survive. Enrique earn 60 pesos to eat something and make a phone call to his mother. He presumes to make a call, but he couldn’t find his bucket. His friends tell him that he needs a guideline to cross Texas.

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