Short synopsis al otro lado

The worst are the thorns, the darkness- and the fear of the "Migra", as the Mexicans call the US-border guard. Verónica Ruiz crouches down behind a bush. She doesn´t know where her friends are. Probably they crouch a few metres away and breathe as quietly as she does. "Think of your family! Your kids!", shouts a policeman, first in English, then in Spanish, while searching the area with floodlights. "Go back to Mexico!" Verónica Ruiz sees into the gun of the policeofficer.

Since nearly three years offers El Alberto, in the south of Mexico City, an adventure park of the special kind. In a simulated war game, can tourists here experience how it is to flee illegally in the United States.

Deep in Hidalgos outback the Hñahñu-Indígenas live marginalised since many years. Except field work work is rare. Of the formerly 2000 inhabitants are today still living 300 in El Alberto. 85% are migrated to the USA.

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To counteract against the extinction of her community the Indigenas have conceived a distinct concept, and passed an autonomous law. According to that, all abroad-living parishioner have to return every 8 years for 1 year to work free of charge for the good of the village community.

Ever since it gets better in the Hñahñus community. Collectively they builded up an adventure park: several swimming pools and slide roads, a restaurant, a camp site. The tourists main attraction is the "Caminata Nocturna", the simulation of the illegal border crossing to the U.S.A. To be able to offer a authentic scenery, 68 of the short-term repatriates co-operate - they play smuggler, US-border patrol, dead body or pickup drivers.

On the return in the USA a few months later they they change the roles and cross the border again. This time it´s real.