Maria Full of Grace post movie blog

     the movie  maria full of grace is about a 17 year old girl named maria who works for a flower store with her friend blanca. she is treated like trash by her boss and quits because she is sick of the abuse from her boss. she finds out that she is pregnant and her boyfriend asked her to merry him, not because he wants to but because thats what he thinks would b best for the child. maria doesn't like the idea and they get into a fight about it and they break up. on her way to bogota to look for a job she meets up with a guy she met at a club and she offers her a job through one of his friends which is being a heroin mule. desperate, she takes the offer and swallows 62 wrapped pellets of heroin and takes a plane to new york along with her friend blanca who is also strapped for cash. when she arrives in new york she is stopped and pulled aside to b checked to see if she is smuggling drugs. since she is pregnant they are not allowed to x-ray her and she is let go. they meet the men who they r supposed to give the pellets to outside the airport and are taken to a motell room to pass the pellets. one of the pellets bursts inside lucy's stomach, another girl smuggling heroin from columbia, and dies. the men cut her open and retrieve the pellets. maria gets freaked out so she grabs blanca and the heroin and they leave to go live with lucy's sister carla for a few days. maria and blanca go to see a guy about what happened and he tells them to return the pellets before any damage is done to their families. they go and give the men the pellets and get their money. then just before boarding the plane maria decides that she wants to stay in the U.S. to have a better life for her baby but blanca returns to columbia.

     life in columbia is poorer and harder than life in the united states. in columbia people struggle to provide for themselves and their families. its hard to find a job that will pay you enough to survive. when offered to be a mule it is easy to say yes to when you are being payed $100 for each pellet that u smuggle into the U.S. especially when ur options are so limited.