Watch Which Way Home on CBC.ca
At an age when myself and most children I know couldn't make their own dinner, thousands of children from all over South America are travelling to the United States on the top of freight trains to find a better life. The fact that attempting entry to a county where they are considered unwelcome to a large number of citizens can seem like a preferable choice to their lives at home says plenty about their current conditions. Living on the streets, some addicted to drugs and without parents to turn to, they take on a journey that could cost them their lives to join distant family members. In Rebecca Camisa's documentary, we follow a group of children riding "The Beast" across the border, and see some of the potential pitfalls played out, some with tragic ends.
