Get the Gringo

E' stata una brutta giornata per Driver e la situazione non sembra migliorare. Ha appena fatto un colpo da milioni di dollari che gli avrebbero permesso di passare una bella vacanza estiva. Apparentemente una buona idea ma la polizia di frontiera lo sta già inseguendo a tutta velocità. Una volta arrestato si ritrova a dover sopravvivere in un carcere messicano, aiutato solo da un ragazzo del luogo.

Incarcéré dans une prison mexicaine où les détenus vivent avec leur famille et où un baron de la drogue fait la loi, un criminel américain s'allie à un gamin assoiffé de vengeance.

История злоключений пойманного мексиканскими властями преступника из Америки, заключенного в полную наркотиков и насилия тюрьму.

The film opens with a getaway driver (Mel Gibson) and a wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American police toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican police officers Vasquez (Mario Zaragoza) and Romero (Gerardo Teracena). When they find over $2 million in the car, they incarcerate him in La Mesa Prison under false charges, keep the cash for themselves, and cremate the accomplice, who by then has died. As one of the only Americans incarcerated there, the driver becomes known as "the Gringo". El Pueblito proves surprising, operating more like a small ghetto than a prison. The Gringo quickly manages to work out the prison's criminal hierarchy and engages in petty thefts and robberies from some of the prison's less reputable businesses. One of these thefts is witnessed by an unnamed kid (Kevin Hernandez) who is living with his incarcerated mother (Dolores Heredia) and is protected by the prison's criminals. Curious, the Gringo presses him to explain why the criminals protect him, but the Kid refuses.