Mexican women aid migrants on train to U.S.
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A documentary that tells the stories of the women who live in La Patrona, a Mexican village that is situated by the tracks of a train from Central America that brings many migrants North to the U.S..
"At the first level, the documentary 'Llévate mis amores' recounts how a group of women from a town in Veracruz help provide food and water to migrants passing through their village on "La Bestia," the train that runs through Mexico from south to north. But beyond that, filmmaker Arturo González Villaseñor offers a beautiful and moving portrait of these women's past, leaving them as vulnerable to the viewer as those migrants they help. Thus we hear their painful stories of machismo, violence, unfulfilled promises, and broken loves, but from another perspective: not one of lamentation, but transmuted into empathy for the other. The message is clear: in the face of despair and disappointment, the meaning of life can be found in helping one's neighbor."