Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Directed by Joshua Marston
A pregnant seventeen-year-old leaves her job on a Colombian rose plantation, signs up in Bogotá as a drug mule and flies to New York with pellets of cocaine in her stomach.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Home town and flower plantation≈ 00:02:00María's home town, Colombian countryside (fictional)InferredFictional
María de-thorns roses at a flower plantation until she quits and learns she is pregnant.
- 2Bogotá, Colombia≈ 00:20:00Stated on screen
In Bogotá she is recruited as a mule and swallows 62 pellets before the flight.
- 3John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York≈ 00:45:00Inferred
At the New York airport customs officers question her, but her pregnancy spares her an X-ray.
- 4Traffickers' motel≈ 00:55:00New York City, New YorkInferred
- 5Lucy's sister's home≈ 01:10:00Queens, New YorkInferred
- 6Departure gate≈ 01:35:00John F. Kennedy International Airport, New YorkInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 4,059 km
- Places
- 5
- Countries
- 2
- Stops
- 6
- Plane: 3,995 km
- Not shown: 28 km
- Car: 21 km
- Bus: 16 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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