The story opens up in Juarez, Mexico, a city torn asunder by drug cartel violence. Trish Fahey is a teacher who has lost touch with why she wanted to work with children in the first place. As a child, she was orphaned to gang violence, when her prostitute mother was killed after qutting the business by her drug dealer father. This pushed Trish to go on to teach high school, but since then she has become jaded, and lost touch with the things that really matter. She finds herself blaming parents for the problems with the children in her class, and often dismisses any reason the children might have for what she sees as less than adequate grades.
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This is the condition she is in when she encounters Justin- a promising young student, who is talented on the basketball court and only mildy obsessed with skateboarding. Trish finds herself criticizing Justin for underpreforming in her class, and eventually persuades the basketball coach via blackmail to suspend him from the team until she sees improvement in her class. When confronted by Justin's mom, Trish blames her for Justin's shortcomings, telling her that it is her fault her son is not preforming well. After this heated exchange, Trish's stress level reaches the heighth it so typically does, and she finds herself craving another drug high in order to forget her problems. While in the process of obtaining her drugs, a rival cartel busts in with the intent of killing everyone present and removing one of their top drug competitors.
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Runtime: USA: 95 min
Release Date: 3 December 2010 (USA)
Country: USA