Calavera Highway

When ARMANDO and CARLOS PENA set off to carry their mothers ashes back to South Texas and reunite with their brothers the road reveals more than they bargained for Calavera Highway Skeleton Highway traces the odyssey of two brothers as they decipher their familys storywhy their mother ROSA was outcast by her own family and what happened to their father PEDRO who disappeared during the notorious 1954 US government deportation program Operation Wetback in which over a million Mexican and Mexican Americans were forced across the border A sweeping story of a family of seven men grappling with the meaning of masculinity fatherhood and a legacy of rootless beginnings