Tagline Real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life...

Synopsis Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Because she is a talented writer, a caring teacher urges her to apply to college. Ana secretly is excited about the possibility, but her overbearing and hypercritical mother, Carmen, insists that it is time for her to help provide for the family by working in her sister's sewing factory. When a crisis arises at the factory, it seems as if Ana's fate is unhappily sealed, but her indomitable will to reach beyond sweatshop life eventually leads her to burst, defiant and resplendent, through every restriction on her life.

Directed by Patricia Cardos  

Starring America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez, Brian Sites, more...

Movie awards
2002, MFF Sundance, cana diváků
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