The Railroad All-Stars

La Linea is Guatemala City's toughest 'hood. Here, alongside the railway tracks, impoverished women such as Valeria, Vilma and Mercy are forced to sell their bodies for $2 a customer. Plagued by violence, discrimination and police repression, a group of sex workers hatch an unusual scheme to raise public awareness for their plight.*** webentry ***Valeria, Vilma and Mercy are three members of a group of prostitutes living in Guatemala earning two dollars per service. In order to draw attention on their everyday problems, they get together to form a football team, train for weeks and sign up for a local championship from which they are expelled for being prostitutes.This expulsion generates strong controversy in Guatemala, with support and rejection suddenly transforming their lives.*** webentry ***Valeria, Vilma and Mercy are three members of a group of prostitutes living in Guatemala earning two dollars per service. In order to draw attention on their everyday problems, they get together to form a football team, train for weeks and sign up for a local championship from which they are expelled for being prostitutes.This expulsion generates strong controversy in Guatemala, with support and rejection suddenly transforming their lives.