Sin Nombre Page #5

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SAYRA:

I don’t care. I don’t need him. I

could go north on my own if I

wanted to.

ORLANDO:

Good, then send me money when you

get there. You’re fifteen Sayra,

you really think you could do this

on your own? It’s dangerous,

you’ve heard the stories. You need

a coyote, you know how much that

costs?

She shrugs.

11.

ORLANDO:

Come with us. I know it won’t be

easy there either, but at least

you’ll have us. There’s nothing

for you here. Nothing.

She grinds the ground with her shoes.

SAYRA:

If I went, it wouldn’t be for him

and it wouldn’t be for you neither.

It would be for me. I’d make my

own decisions.

ORLANDO:

Fine.

SAYRA:

Alright, then I’ll think about it.

You can tell him that.

The first sharp BRASS notes of “CANCI.N MIXTECA” played by a

ragged brass band key-noted with a MARIMBA echo over the HUM

of a river...

12 EXT. SUCHIATE RIVER - GUATEMALA - DAY 12

SUPER:
3 DAYS LATER, 1800 MILES SOUTH OF THE U.S. BORDER

Left side SUPER:
TECUN UMAN, GUATEMALA

Right side SUPER: CIUDAD HIDALGO, MEXICO

Nothing more than a brown, 200 yard wide river divides the

two countries. We pan down from the landscape to a birds-eye

perspective of the river.

The source of the key notes in the music floats onto

screen... A MARIMBA (looks like an oversized xylophone)

played by TWO MEN on a raft made of intertubes and wooden

palettes.

FOUR similar rafts float into view. The ones moving right

are cramped with people -- the ones moving left, product.

BOYS with long poles push the rafts forward.

We move towards one of those rafts with people, where

everyone except for Sayra stares eagerly at the coming

Mexican shore. She stares at the surreal looking MARIMBA

raft.

12.

Horacio sits on the front of the raft. His bushy eyebrows

drip sweat as he joins Orlando in prayer.

...Amen.

HORACIO & ORLANDO

Horacio crosses his chest and looks back at his daughter, who

seems to ignore them both.

Their raft wobbles before it hits the shore, she clenches the

wooden boards, her knuckles whiten. Horacio steps off and

turns to help Sayra, but she still sits with her back to

them, frozen.

He turns and walks away along with Orlando. Sayra notices

they aren’t waiting for her. She stands awkwardly and runs

to join them.

13 EXT. CIUDAD HIDALGO - CONTINUOUS 13

Sayra catches up to Horacio and Orlando, who stand frozen in

front of TWO JUDICIAL POLICE OFFICERS.

JUDICIAL OFFICER #1

Welcome to Mexico. Papers?

The officers grab the three of them by the neck and force

them into a concrete building.

14 INT. CONCRETE BUILDING - CONTINUOUS 14

SEVERAL other nervous IMMIGRANTS sit on the floor in front of

another JUDICIAL OFFICER.

HORACIO:

(whispering)

Don’t worry, we’ll be okay.

SAYRA and ORLANDO do not look convinced. They are petrified.

JUDICIAL OFFICER #2

Okay, friends, first you will empty

your pockets of any and all forms

of money and valuables. Then you

will take each item of clothing off

and place it on the floor in front

of you. Start with your shoes.

They hesitate.

in the head.

Judicial Officer #1 knocks an IMMIGRANT MAN

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