American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Jennifer Lopez
as Lauren Adrian
Martin Sheen
as George Morgan
Antonio Banderas
as Alfonso Diaz
Maya Zapata
as Eva Jimenez
Sônia Braga
as Teresa Casillas
Kate del Castillo
as Elena Diaz
Randall Batinkoff
as Frank Kozerski
Juan Diego Botto
as Marco Antonio Salamanca
Irineo Álvarez
as Domingo Esparza
Julio Cesar Cedillo
as Julio
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
as Lourdes Jimenez
Rene Rivera
as Aris Rodriguez
