In the summer of 1994, a crew of television reporters with unprecedented access filmed and interviewed seven Cubans with their relatives before they set out as economic refugees on homemade rafts headed for US shores. The crew followed the survivors who were rescued at sea and transported to Guantánamo, a United States military base and, at that time, site of a temporary refugee camp.. Seven years later, this same crew reconnects with their subjects to discover the outcome of their new lives in different regions across the United States. Life in the US and under capitalism is not a fairy tale for these refugees; BALSEROS is a true story about some of the authentic survivors of our times, an epic adventure of castaways caught between two worlds.

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