In Sans Merci,
Tracy and Kelly, young students at UCI, are
determined to make a difference by helping the
U’wa Indians in Colombia organize a resistance
campaign to protest a large petroleum
corporation’s plan to drill for oil on the
tribe’s sacred sites. Three years
later, a no longer idealistic Kelly is the
crippled survivor of a brutal attack, and Tracy
never returned from the ill-fated mission of
mercy. One rainy day in Los Angeles, Tracy's
mother Elizabeth shows up unexpectedly at
Kelly's apartment. This is their first meeting.
Slowly, the two women dance through their grief,
while negotiating the truth of what brought the
two young women together, why they undertook
their dangerous humanitarian mission, and what
happened on that final day.
