Le Pain et le Lait

José, Abel and Jesús were still very young as their mother left to go to the United States. She left and came back no more. As time passed, the parcels and the calls became more infrequent, and the distance between them bigger. A few years later, the three brothers left one after the other their childhood Mexico to begin their own journey to the North. The border blocked their path and they almost thought they would live their lives in the industrial zones that grow at the margins of the big American market. Finally, they all reached the America of the undocumented. They now live a few tens of miles away from their mother’s home. In "One step forward, one step back", a documentary road movie, the three brothers tell their story, from their home south to the backroom of the American dream through the industrial miracle of the border. It is an epic poem through the Mexican-American space, but also a silent questioning on the reasons why their family was torn apart. What could have led this mother to forget her children