某個槍聲大作的午後，小女孩艾斯德蕾雅獨自返家，不僅苦等不回相依為命的母親，還開始見到一連串的異象。在恐懼驅使下，她離開了變調的家，踏上冰冷的街頭，被迫加入少年幫派以尋求食物與庇護。然而，天下沒有白吃的午餐，她的第一個任務，就是拿著偷來的手槍，闖入豪宅去謀殺一名凶惡的毒梟爪牙⋯⋯。墨西哥導演伊莎羅培茲以獨到女性視角，探討連年毒品戰爭後被忽略的兒童問題。將寫實社會背景融合魔幻鬼魅風格，精釀闇黑殘酷暴力童話，開啟毒戰題材及成長電影新頁，堪稱拉美版《蒼蠅王》。上映至今不僅爛番茄網站滿分好評居高不下，《水底情深》金獎名導吉勒摩戴托羅更欽點為個人年度十大，連恐怖小說泰斗史蒂芬金都盛讚：「才看兩分鐘，我就落入了這部電影的詛咒」。We are in some northern border. Any of them. All of them. Estrella is 10 years old and has 3 wishes: The first one, that her missing mother comes back and it happens. Her mother returns but she is dead and follows Estrella everywhere. Petrified, Estrella tries to escape from her by joining a gang orphaned by violence. Soon she realizes that dead are never left behind and when you are in the middle of brutality and violence, wishes never come true the way you want them to be.