Spencer Reece, an American poet and Episcopal priest, spent a year teaching poetry to girls at Honduras' only girls' orphanage on a Fulbright grant. Despite initial resistance, the girls created a book of their own poems, which reveal their experiences with love, family, betrayal, and the loss of mothers. The poems explore the challenges they face outside the orphanage and serve as a backdrop for the film's mosaic structure.
Voices Beyond the Wall: Twelve Love Poems from the Murder Capital of the World
A group of orphaned girls in Honduras' deadliest city, San Pedro Sula, find solace and empowerment through poetry as they confront their traumatic pasts and uncertain futures.
