What year is this?
And where in the world are we?
These men are on a mission, one alluded to by a reflective voice-over from Bichirs character, Tito.
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We had our dream, he says.
We were doing it for a better life… We had to break up the earth and we did.
Her father makes a space for her under the floorboards and tells her teenage brother to go and hide.
This showdown does not go well, ending with a conflagration that Nina somehow survives.
The man (Bichir) picks up on her undertone immediately.
I know who you are, and I know why youve come, he says.
Youve come here to find me.
And now youhavefound me.