Movie Description:
Joshua Marston`s "Maria Fullof Grace" introduces us toa determined young woman whose desire for a brighter future leads her into a world ofunimaginable danger. Maria Alvarez, a bright, spirited 17-year-old, lives with three generations of her family in a crampedhouse in rural Colombia. Desperate to leave her job stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation, Maria acceptsa lucrative offer to transportpackets of heroin-which she must swallow-to the United States. The ruthless world of international drug trafficking proves to be more thanMaria bargained for as she becomes ultimately entangled with both drug cartels and immigration officials. The dramatic thriller builds toward aconclusion so powerful and revealing it could only be based on a thousand true stories.
