El Salvador absorbed its gang crisis from the United States: when Los Angeles started deporting members of Salvadoran street gangs by the thousands, it exported the culture that had formed them in California barrios. Reporter Sandra Jordan finds roughly 50,000 gang members now operating in a country of six million, with a third of the capital's residents reporting rape, assault, or armed robbery. A group of teenage girls giggle through an account of killing a rival gang member, an interpreter translating their description of a beating, a brick, and a body left in a ditch. The film also visits El Changuite, a village 200 miles from San Miguel that emptied out entirely after gangs kidnapped, ransomed, and murdered a 13-year-old resident. San Miguel's mayor, Will Salgado, faces accusations of ordering thirty extrajudicial executions of gang members and defends the killings on camera rather than denying them. The film sets that vigilante response against a state that has no answer for the violence its own deportation policy helped create.