A Good Long Way

When Roelito's older brother Beto comes home again way past curfew, smelling like a cantina, their father tells Beto that he either needs to follow the rules or leave. Beto decides to leave, right then, in the middle of the night. Once he has walked away, though, he realizes he has nowhere to go. Maybe his best friend Jessy — a hard-as-nails girl who has run away before — can help him. The story of Beto’s decision to run away and drop out of school is told from shifting perspectives in which the conflicted lives of Roel, Beto, and Jessy are revealed in short, poignant scenes that reflect teen-age life along the Texas-Mexico border.