A Truly Heartbreaking Documentary

I've seen several extremely enlightening documentaries about the perils of immigrating from Central America to the the U.S. (namely "Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (2005)" and "Crossing Arizona (2006)"). More recently I watched the "Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez (2006)", who was pretty young when he traveled to the United States. But never has the idea of children making this journey hit home as it did with the HBO Documentary "Which Way Home (2009)".


""Which Way Home" is a feature documentary film that follows unaccompanied child migrants, on their journey through Mexico, as they try to reach the United States. We follow children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans, who are desperately trying to reach their parents in the US.; children like Jose, a ten-year old El Salvadoran, who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center; and Kevin, a canny, streetwise fourteen-year old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach the U.S. and send money back to her. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the children you never hear about; the invisible ones."