pre blog: maria full of grace

     this movie is about a 17 year old girl who works in sweatshop-like conditions at a flower plantation. maria quits her job and on her way to bogota in search of a new job she is offered the opportunity to b a heroin drug mule and because she was desperate she accepts the offer and swallows 62 wrapped pellets of heroin and flies to new york city with her friend blanca.
     she gets by customs because of her pregnancy and tells them that the father of the child payed for the plane ticket. the drug traffickers round up maria and the other drug mules and take them to a motell until they pass all the pellets.
     one of her fellow mules, lucy, becomes ill because of a ruptured pellet inside of her. the traffickers then cut lucy open and retrieve the pellets and while the traffickers leave to go dump the body, maria and her friend blanca depart with the drugs they have passed and escape. they go to live with lucy's sister. at first they dont reveal to her that lucy is dead but she later finds out and kicks maria and blanca out.
     at the end of the movie maria and blanca turn in their drugs and get their money and use some of it to send lucy's body back to columbia. blanca returns to colombia but maria decides to stay in the united states.