Lake Los Angeles (2014)

After crossing into the US with no family to speak of young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles a surreal desiccated lakebed in the California desert While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love