This Mexican film is passable, it has good actors, a correct plot and good settings.
You know those films which you can not take your eye off. Well, this is one is like this.
Uneven but nonetheless worthwhile. Besides some surprising acting and the Sonora's desert deathly beauty, this film's unquestionable merit is uncovering an buried chapter in Mexican history: the sistematic persecution of Chinese immigrants in the 1930s.
I'd dare to say that this movie is a failed attempt to assert a political message by drawing on historical events and manipulating them. The acting is pathetic, cheesy and over-dramatic.