Benny Garcia (Damián Alcázar) moved to greener pastures — the United States — back when he was a teenager with hopes of becoming a successful Capitalist. Twenty years later he is deported back to Mexico — presumably due to the increasingly xenophobic immigration policies in the U.S. Upon his return to his hometown, Bennie quickly discovers that a pair of feuding drug lords have taken over the region; his younger brother (Tenoch Huerta) and several of his closest friends have died as a result.
Determined to remain on the straight and narrow, Benny begins working at his godfather’s garage; but as soon as Benny falls for a gorgeous prostitute (Elizabeth Cervantes) — the mother of his nephew (Kristyan Ferrer) — he discovers that there is only one way to support a family in Mexico. So, with the assistance of his childhood friend El Cochiloco (Joaquín Cosio), Bennie snags a well-paying job as a drug-running thug for the powerful drug lord Don José Reyes (Ernesto Gómez Cruz). But very soon he discovers that criminal life does not always keeps its promises. Epic black comedy about the world of Mafia and organized crime, HELL / El Infierno helps us to understand what everybody is asking: What is happening in Mexico today? Loaded with blatant socio-political messages and heavy emotional drama, Estrada’s film is a sardonically dark and cynical critique of Mexico’s economic quagmire that reveals a dog-eat-dog world in which even the strongest and most corrupt cannot survive.
