Along the coast of Baja California, smugglers load marijuana and migrant workers onto pangas, the small open fishing boats that run north under cover of darkness. Filmmaker Jesse Aizenstat, financed by private donations and proceeds from his book "Surfing the Middle East," follows these all-night crossings as they play out against the backdrop of Mexico's drug war, when cartel violence made the stakes of every run higher than a simple border crossing. The film stays close to the people doing the work: the boat operators who navigate open water at night to avoid patrols, and the migrants who pay for passage alongside the drug cargo. There's no narration track dressing up the material with outside experts or reenactments; it's a direct look at a smuggling economy built around a single, unremarkable-looking vessel. The pangas themselves are the throughline, cheap and disposable enough that losing one to authorities barely slows the operation down.