Kino International Corporation.

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, a town in southern Argentina. He wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years he has worked as a seaman. Having reached the cluster of houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still alive, but someone else has become part of the family....

Two Mexican day-laborers in Los Angeles, who normally stand on the corner by the home improvement store waiting for work to come, reach their breaking point and take a troubled housewife hostage in her own home.