My Life Inside

Powerful, heartbreaking, infuriating true story

APPROPIATE

2007 / 120min.

Rating6.9

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her family, and the helplessness of being imprisoned in a foreign country make Rosa’s story an example of the hard life of Mexican migrants in the United States.

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