A tenacious father searches for his daughter in a town notorious for its ongoing disappearances and killings of women and girls. Risking confrontation from state police and ignoring death threats from unknown assailants, this father, Jose Luis Castillo, along with other grieving parents search for their daughters and seek justice in a corrupt system that doesn’t care about them. But wait, just when we think femicide is limited to Mexico, we learn that the United States has the highest rates of femicides in any industrialized nation. With powerful interviews from renowned femicide activists like Dr. Diana E. H. Russell, Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, from the United Nations State Representatives, government officials and activists from Juarez, they explain what is femicide and the importance of recognizing the difference between femicide and homicide. But more importantly, experts will offer methods to alleviate this growing crisis.
