Tulio Villavicencio

Juan Preciado, a man who promises his mother on her deathbed to meet his father for the first time in the town of Comala, only to come across a literal ghost town. That is, populated by spectral characters.

Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.