The Absence of Eden

Carmen (Zoe Saldaña) runs a motel in a desert town while managing a dangerous side business to keep her daughter afloat. When a man named Shipp (Garrett Hedlund) arrives with his own secrets, their lives tangle through debt and survival under the constant threat of ICE raids. Perego builds the pressure steadily, but what breaks Carmen in the end is not the law closing in, but what she has already sacrificed to stay ahead of it.