Dutch filmmaker and journalist Stef Biemans aims to find out why people risk their lives trying to immigrate over the borders to the U.S. Biemans travels between Guatemala and America to see what so-called ‘bad hombres’ hope to find in the States. Sometimes at great personal risk, many without immigration papers seek to escape poverty, violence, and political instability in their home countries.

Dutch filmmaker and journalist Stef Biemans aims to find out why people risk their lives trying to immigrate over the borders to the U.S. Biemans travels between Guatemala and America to see what so-called ‘bad hombres’ hope to find in the States. Sometimes at great personal risk, many without immigration papers seek to escape poverty, violence, and political instability in their home countries.