Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an...

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the ne...

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky...
Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard...

Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a compan...

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to th...

Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his e...

A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the moun...

A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's yo...

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living ...

In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - riflema...

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to t...

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement reg...

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a hom...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in...

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...

An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argent...

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her ...