Since the beginning of the drug war in 2006
160,000 have been killed and 53,000 have disappeared in Mexico.
Entire areas of some cities are turning into ghost towns.
There are no numbers for the children
the dead and the missing have left behind.
TEACHER: Okay. Fairy tales, guys.
TEACHER: Name some fairy tale characters.
KID: Fairies!
KID: Princes?
KID: Wishes! 3 wishes!
KIDS: Foxes! Witches! Ghosts!
TEACHER: What else? KID: Castles!
KID: And tigers!
TEACHER: Now, using those elements and characters
you're going to write your own fairy tale, okay?
No chatting! Concentrate, guys.
Keep quiet. Focus on your story.
No cheating!
Once upon a time, there was a Prince who wanted to be a tiger.
Tigers never forget.
They're hunters.
Their eyes can see in the dark.
They have fangs, to break bones.
Tigers are not afraid.
Where you going, Caco?
None of your fucking business!
Leave me alone!
Caco, come on!
But the Prince couldn't become a tiger.
Because he had forgotten how to be a Prince.
We forget that we are Princes,
warriors,
tigers.
When the things from outside come to get us.
Stay on the floor...
Estrella!
Here. 3 wishes!
Like in fairy tales...
3 wishes.
It's going to be all right!
Let's go back to our fairy tale list...
Classes suspended until further notice.
We forget who we are,
when the things from outside come to get us.
TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID
Mom, I'm home!
...With your vote, Servando Esparza
can bring back safety and peace...
Mom, they closed the school. There's no classes.
...Servando Esparza, *El Chino* needs your vote...
Want me to waste you? Huh?
Leggo of my lamp! Ew!!
Whadaya want, Morro?
The tiger?
Shine, he wants you tellin' the tiger story.
Come on, Morro, again??
Don't come later saying you can't sleep!
Here. Give it some epic.
There was this very rich dude
he had many wild animals.
He had tigers,
lions,
pumas,
panthers,
jaguars...
But one day the Huascas came.
And they killed him.
Caco and the other Huascas
killed all his animals.
But when they got to the tiger's cage...
He had escaped.
Now he's prowling the dark alleys
angry,
and hungry.
He feeds on:
dogs,
cats...
and children with no parents.
And that's it.
Please, leave your message after the tone.
ESTRELLA: Mom, where are you?
I'm hungry.
Please, call me.
I'm a Princess?
No. You are a warrior.
And then?
And then the spell was broken,
and the Prince was a Prince again.
And then?
And then it’s time to go to sleep,
because tomorrow is a school day!
Estrella! You have to sleep!
Mom! When can I have your birdies bracelet?
When you’re a big girl...
And I'm not around anymore.
I wish my mom would come back.
Estrella...
Estrella.
I'm here...
You still around?
-Let go! -No!
Let go, kiddo!
No, this is my mom's!
What do you want??
Your mom needs shit! The Huascas took her!
‘Tis not true! She came back last night!
Estrella...
Come...
MISSING
Ugly ass movie...
so much anger, dude...
Pure bad vibe, guys.
Dead people and shit.
Let's see what you got us...
Beans? Again? Fancy.
Where did you steal all this shit?
More phones?
Like we had anybody to call!
We can call each other, asshole!
Another iPhone?
You haven't even sold that one with the dragon!
-This is not for selling, butthead. -Gimme that.
You picking the green peas again?
Tell'im, Shine!
Tucsi, eat them green peas.
I don't like green peas!
Eat them! They're your veggies!
Shit! Shit!
-Who's the chick? -She's stuck.
-Stuck to what? -To my ass.
I'm hungry.
We don't give a shit you're hungry. Right, Pop?
Yeah. Tiger should eat your ass. True dat, Tucsi?
True. Tiger likes human meat.
Specially female.
Show her, Morro.
Goodbye, kiddo.
No! Please! Don't make me go home!
-Let her go! -I don't want to go to my house!!
Let her stay.
The Huascas will grab her. She won't last long.
-They'll take her to Chino. She's toast. -She's a chick.
Chicks are bad luck.
Let's cover up. Come on.
Morro, do something, dude!
Stop stuffing your face, runt!
Thank—
Morro! What did I say?
Mom?
Estrella...
What's wrong??
The Huascas??
If you wake me up again I'll kick your pink girly ass!!
Kiddo!
The Huascas are coming!!
You run somewhere else! Go!
Shine!
Move it!
Now! Run!
I will kill you, motherfucker!!
That's my gun, asshole!
-Let's go, Shine! -Where did you get that gun, fucker?
You got my phone, son of a bitch?
You'll give me that phone back, asshole!!
Shine!
And Morro?
They took him!
They nabbed his little footsie!
He left his plushy tiger, dude!
What happens to the ones they take?
They grab'em and take'm to Chino.
Chino chops them off and they sell the parts.
They're narco-satanics. They have a deal with the devil.
-And they have satanic virtuals. -Rituals. Not virtuals.
-They can be virtual! -No, they are really real, not virtu--
The women, they kill.
The kids-- look at me!
The kids they take who knows where.
And you know why they took Morro?
Because of you!
Because they saw there's a chick with us!
-No, they wanted that cell-- -No! It was YOUR fault!
I can make that Huasca disappear.
Go kill him.
We'll take you to his place.
You kill him, you can stay with us.
-How will I get in? -You jump.
You knock.
And you kill him.
Uhm... I don't think so.
That asshole killed your mom.
Yours too.
You kill him. You're the man here.
True dat, Shine.
If you don’t turn into a man and kill’im,
tomorrow he’ll come for you, he’ll find you
and cut you in pieces and eat you in a satanic ritual!
-Or virtual. -Virt-- I don't give a shit, OK?
Thing is, kiddo...
...if he doesn’t die, we all die.
Go! Move! Go!
Move it!
Go! Keep moving!
This candidate, Servando Esparza, also known as El Chino,
...has strong ties with the organized crime...
...and the infamous Huascas gang works for him.
El Chino has been directly involved in human trafficking,
kidnapping, torture, and multiple homicides,
on top of his connections with the drug-trade.
I wish I didn’t have to kill him...
-Come! -Come!
-Let us out! -Come!
You kept all your pieces!
And she goes into the house, tippy-toe, tippy-toe...
And BOOM! Caco is right there!! Eating kids! And Pizza Hut!!
So she pulls out the gun...
aims at Caco!
No, little girl, please!
I will not eat any more kids or pizza!
BAM!! She offs him!
No more pepperoni for you!
How did you do it?
I made a wish.
If I had any wishes, I would have killed him.
But I have shit.
Why are you mad?
That's the phone Caco wanted?
Why do you keep it?
Tucsi's gramma got shot at a funeral.
Pop's brothers got picked up by the highway.
Morro? They say he saw something.
Something bad. Now he doesn't speak.
All because of that son of a bitch and his fucking brothers.
But now Caco is dead, and--
Come show us your moves!
Estrella...
They will come for you...
for his death.
I didn't kill him!
No.
The one who killed him is looking for you...
and he will find you.
You have to bring him to me.
What the--!
Estrella says we need a better crib.
Where each has our own room,
a soccer field, a zoo, an arcade
a shitload of commodities and a heated pool.
-She did not! -But it'd be awesome.
Okay, THAT'S IT!
Everybody calm the fuck down!
My house! My operation!
And there's no houses with...
soccer, pool, zoos or any of that shit!
Toldya.
The Huascas know where we are.
And one of them got killed.
You killed him.
That's why we have to go.
Move it, Morro! Grab that box.
Hey, Disney Princesses! Move it!
Lazy asshats.
Shine...
You still mad?
What up?
What's their problem?
They're crying 'cause they miss their brother.
He's with Brayan's gang.
Fine. Go!
No, 'cause Estrella killed Caco, so they're afraid.
So? I’m the idiot who’s supposed to take them back to Brayan?
You gotta be kidding me...
Watch this...
Take that, asshole!
200 bucks, pussy!
Chato! Agus!
-No way! -Hey! Those are my brothers!
-Caco took them! They're his! -Caco is dead, Brayan.
Yeah, right...
We killed him.
Give me a fucking break!
Estrella killed him.
Shit, Shine...
You sent a girl to do your job?
In my gang,
girls are tougher than your bunch of pussywipes, asshole.
They're gonna find you, Shine.
Chino, and what's left of the Huascas.
If you offed Caco,
they're gonna kill you.
They're gonna kill you all.
We'll hide.
Yeah. Right. Where?
Stop it, Morro. Don’t be such a baby.
One! Two! THREE!
Come, Morro! Run, Tucsi!
Wow! It's like that Lord of the Rings place!
Dude! Awesome!!
Look!
-Where did they come from? -They escaped their fish bowl.
Look! That one looks like Morrito!
I'll call that one Estrella...
That's you! The troublemaker!
This is like your zoo, but with only fishies!
If there's a zoo...
There's a gotta be a soccer field!
Come on, Morro!
Soccer field... my ass.
Estrella...
Come...
Estrella... they are coming for you...
Come with me...
Estrella... come. Come...
Shine...
What is it?
It should've been me the one who killed him.
Don't answer!
Where the fuck are you, you fucking kids?
You killed my brother, sons of bitches!
That little bitch did it!!
Give that phone back, or we're gonna--
Fucking Brayan.
Why do you keep that phone?
That's the only photo I've got of my mom.
Caco took it when he grabbed her?
What happened??
No soccer field, but we found this!
Make room for number 4.
You moron...
That's a Y, not a 4!
Now the name! The name!!
It looks like a claw!
Not to worry, Morro! It will only last a month!
Let me see...
It looks like Caco.
Here.
You drew her kittens, you ninnie??
They're tigers, asshole. They'll protect her.
Let's see yours, Morro...
What happened to him?
He fell.
Here, I’ll fix him.
Be careful. You can prick yourself...
There. Don’t cry.
Look, he’s okay now!
Why do you have wishes?
Turn off that light!
People need to sleep! Jeez...
These fishes are just like the tiger.
They escaped their cage.
Poor tiger.
He had a home.
A mom.
In the jungle.
Now he's all alone.
He's scared.
No.
He's been through all the bad stuff.
And now he's free to go anywhere he wants.
He's the King of this fucked up kingdom.
Tigers are not afraid.
Is your mom's picture in the phone?
You got any pictures of her?
I left them home.
I left mine too. And they burned.
They burned your house?
They spilled gas on it and...
they threw this in.
They grabbed my mom too...
when we were running out.
What are you going to do with your last wish?
I can’t bring your mom back.
But maybe you could wish...
that this burn in my face goes away.
No.
And I'll get your mom’s photos from your place--
Every time I make a wish,
something really bad happens.
What do you mean something bad--?
You fucking thief!
Where's that fucking phone?
Where is it?
Who has it, asshole?
That little bitch who did my brother in?
You'll take me to her, you hear?
Next!
What's your name, contestant?
-Rappop. -And what's your talent?
I rap.
Okay! Amaze us.
And Shine?
Dunno. But you wanna be a star?
Shit...
My twinkles, dude!
That act sucks. Big time.
You stinker!
Get off my stage!
-I know where you live! -Don't think so.
Next!
Right, Chino.
I swear we'll get it this time. Yes, boss.
Right, sir.
Estrella...
They're coming to get you.
Bring him.
To us. To where the dead wait for him.
Estrella...
...come!
Where's that fucking phone??
I'm gonna loosen you up, slut...
ESTRELLA!
Son of a bitch! Kill that motherfucker!
Let's go!
Why do they want this phone so bad?
Must be something in it...
What’s this?
Stop it!
STOP IT!!
-You recording me? -No, Chino.
It's Chino...
Caco recorded this to screw him.
Find Chino.
Call him.
Why would I call him?
Just call him.
You've got something I need.
You will give it back.
Or I'll go looking for it. And I'll find it.
We'll give it to you.
When?
When you make the Huascas disappear.
Tomorrow at seven AM.
Where?
There's an old spa by the railroad. Across an abandoned gas station.
You bring me that phone
and the Huascas are done, right there.
Or you don't come.
But then I'll go find you.
And I'll do to you the same thing I did to Caco.
Because you didn't kill him, did you?
Even if you're telling everyone you did...
It was me who killed him, girl.
Because he didn't give me that phone. Think about it.
LIAR!!
You said you killed Caco! But it wasn't you!
And look what happened!!
Liar! Look after Morro!
See you, Morrito!
Estrella...
Another dead one.
Because of him.
Here we are... all of us.
Bring him to us...
See? He's not at the bus station.
-Lucky guess. -No, it was my 5th sense.
Jesus, shut up already.
What do you want?
Shine, can I have the phone?
-What for? -I wanna make a call.
No, give me Caco's phone. We don't have the code for this one.
Who you gonna call, anyways?
No! Pop!
Tucsi! Come here!
Come back here!
Bring him...
Bring him to us.
To where he put us all.
Bring him to us!
Tigers are not afraid, tigers are not afraid!
Tigers are not afraid!!
No fucking way! Cops are the worst!
-They can help us! -No way!
So give me that phone!
Stop it, Shine!
Here's a video of Chino killing somebody!
-And who catches killers? -Dunno, but not the cops!
LET GO!
-No! -Come here! You assholes!
Come here, you morons!
Police!
-What's up, runts? -We wanna report a crime!
A crime against human kindness!
Look.
Where did you get that?
-See who that is? -Fuck that shit.
No! You can't just go!
Why?? You can't go!!
WHY??
You sons of bitches!!!
Assholes.
You morons!
What did I say?
Gimme that phone, you idiot! You give me the other one. Retards.
What was your master plan?
Go to Chino and get whacked? Huh? Is that your big idea?
-Why do you shush me? -Shut up!
Why do you have to be the one with the plan?
Shut up!
-Where are you going? -We need to find Estrella!
I need to tell her something!
-Wait! -Wait!
Estrella!
She left Morrito all alone!
That's just mean.
Poor little dude. He must be cold.
-We can't leave him. -But first Estrella needs to--
First, Morro.
Let's cover him.
Cover him.
Give me a hand.
He's all stiff!
That's how it works. Hold him.
Wait! Where are we putting him?
They're burying me.
I'm cold.
Where?
All over.
No... where are they burying you?
Oh.
Hold it, hold it! Lemme check the--
How did you find us?
Morrito told me.
Right. Now he even talks?
Morrito is here. We tucked him. After you left him.
-You heartless creature. -You liar.
You heartless lying creature!
I've got something to tell you.
The video we saw...
Later.
We need to go see Chino.
Or they'll come and they'll kill us all.
But first Morro.
Help me here.
Push this side.
Rest in peace Maxwell Alexander Aureliano Villareal Mora Vázquez.
Mora Vázquez.
If we're gonna go to Chino...
We have to.
Estrella!
Give me...
We're so royally screwed...
Shut up. Don't talk to me with that shit on your face.
It's war paint. Respect, man.
Right. I'm sure Chino will go:
“Don't touch them. They put shoeshine on their mugs. They're deadly.”
Morons.
-Get that shit off. -Uhm... with what?
With spit. Retards.
Move it!
Estrella...
The lady on the phone's vide--
What if I use my last wish to make Chino disappear?
But what if it turns out wrong?
There are no wishes.
There's nothing.
Not even tigers.
We're all there is.
Those kids must be here already.
-Do you want us to go find them? -No.
Motherfucking son of a bitch. I'm not voting for him.
Ok, now you're fucked, son of a--
-Lemme go, asshole! -Tío! Leave him alone.
Where's the phone?
What's the password?
What's the password?!
That's the one, boss. That's Caco's dragon.
Ok. Now we waste them?
No, Chino!!
We had an agreement, didn't we?
Get lost. I don't want to see you again.
Where's my mom?
How the fuck would I know? Go!
Here's where they killed my mom, isn't it?
Shine!
I need to know!
We need to go.
I swapped the phone. But he'll notice.
What are you doing?
There's no wishes! Don't be stupid!
I wish that your scar disappears.
See?
There's nothing.
Shine... Shine!
Shine...
When you called me you knew the password, didn't you, bitch?
Where are you??
Come out!
Where are you?
Where the fuck are you?
I'm gonna kill you, you slut!
Come out! I'm gonna fucking kill you!
Estrella... come!
I'm gonna rip you apart, you bitch!
I can see you, slut!
Mom...
I'm gonna kill you, fucking bitch!
I can see you...
Open up, fucker! Open the door!
Goodbye, kiddo.
Goodbye...
Tigers are not afraid.
They went through all the bad stuff.
And came out on the other side.
They are Kings...
...of this Kingdom of broken things.
Because we have to remember
...we are Princes.
We are warriors.
And tigers.
And tigers are not afraid.