Demian Bichir ("A Better Life") set to make his debut as a screenwriter and director on the indie feature Refugio.   "Refugio" follows the life of a young circus boy who travels across Mexico to the United States as he searches for his true love. The boys' story is a transformational journey to adulthood and to making the impossible a reality.

Refugio, a romantic dreamer whose years long quest to find true love takes him from the circus life in Mexico to the nightlife of New Orleans, where he unexpectedly falls for a beautiful exotic dancer with a complicated past and a dangerous ex-lover who refuses to let her go.

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