Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, has a secret: since 1994 over two hundred young women have disappeared from its streets, most being discovered weeks or months later, murdered and abused, their bodies dumped in a desert that provides few clues. Bay Area filmmaker Lourdes Portillo investigates why this is happening, and who, or what, is to blame: an Egyptian national, a gang called "the rebels," bus drivers, narco-traffickers, the police, the military, U.S. nationals, or the multinational factories where the women worked? As Portillo reveals a legacy of disinformation, incompetence, and corruption with a forceful, slowly building anger, Ciudad Juarez's dirty secret spirals into a truly horrific nightmare. Everyone, and everything, is suspect. Yet while rumors swirl and officials dally the women continue to disappear: in eighteen months of filming, Portillo states, over fifty women were killed. Powerful, alarming, and frequently heartbreaking, this is her plea, and psalm, for them. For more information on this film, please visit the film's own website at www.lourdesportillo.com