Dreamers

Across the Atlantic, in the “Land of the Brave,” undocumented migrants are deemed Dreamers. One of them is 39-year-old Carlos, a Mexican who has been living in Chicago for the past three decades. Having witnessed his brother’s deportation over trivial matters, he fights tooth and nail to stay on the right side of the law. However, he feels like an American, paying his taxes, and having his entire family residing there, stuck in the state of Illinois – aside from the relatives born in a home country where their parents are still unwelcome. The mature, composed, and measured pater familias, in spite of his bitterness, seems resigned to his purgatory, even though he doesn’t quit trying to build a life on precarious foundations. An excitingly filmed, evocative portrait of the crushed dream of belonging and the constant rejection to fitting in, an elegy subtly embellished with the sounds of an electric guitar and the notes of hope for an undefined future.