![]() ![]() With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. Joaquín and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everything-adventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories of the girl’s mother-until one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his life-that is until Joaquín González unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and González & Daughter Trucking Co. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison’s meager supply. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”-John Sayles, Screenwriter and Director “1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison. ![]() Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision). ![]()
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